Robert A. Richman, MD

Dr. Richman has been a Professor of Pediatrics for the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse since 1988. He directed the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology there from 1976 to 1998. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1962 and received his medical degree from SUNY Syracuse in 1967. Dr. Richman completed an internship in Pediatrics at.Boston City Hospital (l968) and completed a Pediatric residency at: Mt. Sinai Hospital (New York) in l969. From 1969-1971, he was an NIH Trainee in Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina Medical School.

Dr. Richman served in the U.S. Air Force as Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Shaw Air Force Base (l97l - l973). Subsequently, he completed an NIH Special Fellowship in the Department of Physiology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, during l974 - l976. After a brief stint as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinoics (1973-1974), Dr. Richman joined the faculty of the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse.

A prominent researcher in the area of fetal growth, Dr. Richman has published over 50 original articles and several book chapters. He is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine (ad hoc) since 1986, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. A national leader in helping children and families deal with short stature, Dr. Richman was Medical Director of the Chicago Chapter of the Human Growth Foundation (1973-1974) and founder of the Upstate New York Chapter of the Human Growth Foundation.