Dr. Rose-Mary Boustany is a Professor of Pediatrics/Biochemistry at the American University of Beirut. She also served as founding Chair of the Abuhaidar Neuroscience Institute and Acting Chair of Psychiatry (2006–2009). She graduated from the American University of Beirut with her B.S. in 1975 and obtained her M.D. in 1979. She was trained in Neurology/Neurogenetics/Neurochemistry at Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and joined the faculty there (1980–1988). She moved to Duke University and became a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Neurobiology/Associate in Medicine/Member of Duke Cancer Center & Programs in Genetics/Genome Science/Cellular and Molecular Biology spending 19 years there, and now is an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics/Professor of Neurobiology at Duke. Dr. Boustany is an international authority on pediatric neurogenetic/neurodegenerative disorders/lysosomal storage disease, the Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, and is interested in autism. She has received many honors and awards, including a Merck Foundation, Klingenstein Foundation, BDSRA President’s and Genetic Alliance awards, the Raymond D. Adams lectureship at Mass General (2006), a Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research award (2008), and the Sidney Carter award for life achievement in Pediatric Neurology (2012). She is also a Fellow of the American Pediatric Society and the American Neurological Association.