Dr. Stuart Ditchek, a board certified pediatrician specializing in the care of high-risk children and young adults is on the faculty of the NYU School of Medicine and an attending physician at both NYU Langone and Maimonides Medical Center.

He is the former medical director of the Jewish Genetic Disease Consortium, the current Chief Medical Officer of the Kids of Courage and an active member of the National Gaucher Disease specialty registry. He lectures regularly on the topic of genetic diseases with a proficiency in Gaucher Disease.