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prof. salvatore dimauro . -lsb- http://web.neuro.columbia.edu/members/test3.php?id=24] 2 verona , italy billi lucy g. moses professor of neurology salvatore dimauro
 november 14 , 1939 mitochondrial and metabolic disorders sheila hayes columbia university medical center university of padua salvatore dimauro director , h. houston merritt clinical research center
salvatore dimauro

prof. salvatore dimauro , m.d. , was born in verona , italy , november 14 , 1939 , graduated in medicine from the university of padua in 1963 and completed his residency in neurology in 1966 .
he then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the department of neurology at the university of pennsylvania .
his research focuses on genetic errors of energy metabolism and he defines disease entities using both biochemical and molecular approaches .
as an `` enzyme defect hunter '' , dimauro has documented the molecular basis of many enzyme deficiencies , including carnitine palmitoyltransferase deficiency , the first error of fatty acid oxidation to be recognized in humans .
with colleagues at the university of pennsylvania in the 1970s , dimauro studied the second patient ever with luft 's disease , the prototypical -lrb- though also the rarest -rrb- mitochondrial disease .
he is a professor of neurology at columbia university , director of the h. houston merritt clinical research center for muscular dystrophy and associate chair of related diseases for laboratory research and training .
he is a trustee on the united mitochondrial disease foundation .
prof. dimauro has scores of publications .
he also has several books to his credit .
his last book is titled mitochondrial medicine and was published in 2006 .
