Robert Marion, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is Director Emeritus of the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center and the Rose F. Kennedy University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, and Chief Emeritus of the Divisions of Genetics and Development Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. From 1986 until 2010, he served as Director of Genetics at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York and has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Joan Marks Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY since 1980.
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A 1979 graduate of Einstein, Dr. Marion did an internship in pediatrics at the Boston Floating Hospital, Tufts-New England Medical Center and a residency at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He completed a fellowship in Medical Genetics at Einstein. He has been a faculty member at Einstein since 1984. From 2002 until 2007, he served as Co-Director of Medical Student Education for Einstein’s Department of Pediatrics and has served as a Co-Chair of Einstein’s Committee on Admissions since 1988. From 1986 until 2006, he was editor and publisher of Acta Paediatrica Einsteinia (the APE for short), the official newsletter of Einstein’s Department of Pediatrics.
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Dr. Marion’s clinical and research interests include the natural history and genetic basis of syndromes. From 1986 until 2010, he served as medical director of the Einstein/ Montefiore Spina Bifida Multidisciplinary Clinic; he is also the founder of Montefiore’s Williams Syndrome Center and its Center for Cardiogenetics. He has published extensively in the medical literature in these areas, and, in addition, is the author of seven books including The Intern Blues, The Boy Who Felt No Pain (winner of a Christopher Award), Learning to Play God and Genetics Round.
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Dr. Marion’s efforts as a teacher have received recognition numerous times. He is the recipient of Einstein’s Samuel Rosen Award for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching (selected by the medical students) and the Alumni Association’s Lifetime Service Award. He is also the winner of the Lewis Fraad Award for Residency Education and the William Obrinsky Award for excellence in medical student teaching in the department of pediatrics. In 2023, he was the keynote speaker at Einstein’s commencement ceremony.
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A resident of Westchester County, he lives with his wife, Beth Schoenbrun, a former teacher at Scarsdale High School, and is the father of three children and grandfather of four grandchildren.