Dr. Khaja Basheeruddin is a Public Service Administrator at the Illinois Department of Public Health working in newborn screening program. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry from the University of London, United Kingdom, in 1983 and completed a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His major research interests consist of studying metabolism in health and diseased state and he has worked in the field of newborn screening for more than nine years. He has published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his research findings in national and international meetings.