Robert A. Saul

Robert A. Saul, MD, FAAP, FACMG, was born and raised in the Chicago area. He graduated from Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO) and from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Duke University Medical Center and a fellowship in genetics at the Greenwood Genetic Center. He was in Greenwood, SC from 1979 until 2013 at the Greenwood Genetic Center and also practiced pediatrics for 24 years. He retired from Prisma Health Upstate (Greenville, SC) and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine—Greenville at the end of 2020 as Professor of Pediatrics (Emeritus). He was the Chair of the Section on Genetics and Birth Defects and the Committee on Genetics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, served as project co-director of the AAP Genetics in Primary Care Institute, and served on the AAP National Conference and Exhibition Planning Group. He edited the AAP policy manual Medical Genetics in Pediatric Practice, which received an honorable mention in the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Awards for 2014. He was accepted into membership of the American Pediatric Society in 2016. In retirement, he serves as a consultant and an author.