An Era of Progress in Pediatric Neurodegenerative Diseases: Dr. Mary Kay Koenig, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School

“When I was in medical school, no one had even heard of mitochondrial disease. Today, every student who graduates here knows what it is and has seen a patient with it,” says Dr. Mary Kay Koenig, director of the Center for the Treatment of Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School. That remarkable change in awareness has been accompanied by advances in genetic…