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Robert Marion, M.D., is an American pediatrician and author who has written extensively about his experiences as a physician-in-training and as a medical geneticist. Born on 27 March 1952 in New York City and raised in its suburbs, he attended college at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

professor of pediatrics and of obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health and the Ruth L. Gottesman Professor of Developmental Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is the director of the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center and the Rose F. Kennedy University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. He is chief of the divisions of genetics and of developmental medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and director of the Center for Congenital Disorders. At Einstein, he is also Chair of the Committee on Admissions. In addition, he is the director of genetics at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, NY, and an adjunct member of the faculty of the Joan Marks Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.

A 1979 graduate of Einstein, Dr. Marion did his internship in pediatrics at the Boston Floating Hospital, Tufts–New England Medical Center, and then returned to Einstein-affiliated hospitals for his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in medical genetics. He has been a faculty member at Einstein since 1984. From 2002 to 2007, he served as co-director of medical student education for Einstein’s department of pediatrics. In June 2008 he became chair of Einstein’s Committee on Admissions.

The author of more than 70 articles published in reviewed journals and more than 100 abstracts presented at national meetings, Dr. Marion is also the author of seven books. His books include The Intern Blues, The Boy Who Felt No Pain, and Genetic Rounds. His writing has been recognized with numerous awards, including a Christopher Award and the American Medical Writer’s Association Book of the Year Award.

Dr. Marion is the recipient of Einstein’s Samuel Rosen Award for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching (selected by the medical students) and the Alumni Association’s Lifetime Service Award. He is also the winner of the Lewis Fraad Award for Residency Education and the Obrinsky Award for excellence in medical student teaching in the department of pediatrics, and was recognized by Einstein’s Women’s Division as the recipient of its Spirit of Achievement Award for 2009, and by the UJA/Federation and the Butler Foundation as the recipient of the Zella Bronfman Butler Change Agent Award for 2010.

A resident of Westchester County, he lives with his wife, Beth Schoenbrun, a teacher at Scarsdale High School, and is the father of three children.