Gabriel Kupchik, MD

Dr. Gabriel S. Kupchik is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at Maimonides Infants & Children’s Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Kupchik joined Maimonides in 1994. He completed his medical education at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. He then completed a residency in Pediatrics at North Shore University Hospital and fellowship training in Clinical and Molecular Genetics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
 
Dr. Kupchik is board-certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Molecular Genetics. He has published over 45 peer reviewed articles and abstracts in various medical journals and has received numerous grants for his work. He teaches future physicians as a member of the Pediatric Residency Program and oversees supervision for genetic counseling trainees.

Special interests

• Dysmorphology
• Establishing difficult and complex diagnoses

Research interests

• Down syndrome and genitourinary malformations
• Congenital absence of the vas deferens
• GMS syndrome
• Leprechaunism
• Complex/atypical chromosome rearrangements

Professional affiliations

• American College of Medical Genetics (founding fellow)
• American Board of Medical Genetics
• American Medical Association