John Graham, MD, is a pediatrician and medical geneticist with more than 45 years of training and experience in clinical genetics, dysmorphology, teratology, developmental disabilities, communicative disorders and public health aspects of birth defects. He completed fellowships in developmental disabilities and dysmorphology, and his research involves teratogenic syndromes, genetic syndromes and other factors that cause birth defects. Graham continues to treat patients at Cedars-Sinai and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is an academic clinical geneticist, and his experience covers a wide variety of clinical problems, including craniofacial disorders, growth disorders, birth defects, intellectual disability, genetic conditions and teratogenic disorders. He serves on the Section of Genetics and Birth Defects and the Section of Child Development for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has served on the editorial boards for the following journals: Teratology, Birth Defects Research, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Congenital Anomalies (Japan), European Journal of Medical Genetics, Global Pediatric Health Clinical Pediatrics. Graham is a past president of the Teratology Society. He is a past president of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics. He has authored more than 240 publications in peer-reviewed journals, more than 100 reviews and book chapters, and one book. He has been a longstanding and active member of numerous professional organizations and academic societies concerned with the health of children and with the causes and prevention of birth defects, including the American Society of Human Genetics, European Society of Human Genetics, American College of Medical Genetics, American Pediatric Society and Teratology Society.