From 1998 to 2008, he was appointed Section Chief of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine. Butler was a tenured Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology and Director of the Regional Genetics Program at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, from 1984 to 1998. He received the Distinguished Service Award from Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska, in 1986, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana University in 2007.ĭr. He is chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He is board-certified in Clinical Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics and became a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) in 1993. He completed an American Board of Medical Genetics accredited fellowship in Medical Genetics from 1980 to 1984 and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics in 1984. in Medical Genetics from Indiana University in 1984. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1978 and his Ph.D. His research interests include the genetics of obesity with emphasis on Prader-Willi syndrome and obesity-related disorders, autism, psychiatric and behavioral genetics, genotype-phenotype correlations and the natural history and delineation of rare and uncommon clinical genetics syndromes. Butler is engaged in the clinical genetics practice of children and adults presenting for genetics services with emphasis on genetic disorders, developmental disabilities, congenital anomalies, cytogenetic syndromes, Prader-Willi syndrome, early onset of morbid obesity and autism.

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