Richard Boles

Dr. Boles completed medical school at UCLA, a pediatric residency at Harbor-UCLA, and a genetics fellowship at Yale.
He is board certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Clinical Biochemical Genetics.
His current positions include Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Director of the Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders Clinic at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
Dr. Boles practices the “bedside to bench to bedside” model of a physician-scientist, combining a very active clinical practice in metabolic and mitochondrial disorders with basic researchas director of a mitochondrial genetics laboratory at the Saban Research Institute.
Dr. Boles’ clinical and research focus is on polymorphisms (common genetic changes) in the maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA, and their effects on the development of common functional disorders.
Examples include migraine, depression, cyclic vomiting syndrome, complex regional painsyndrome, autism and SIDS.
He has 50 published papers on Mitochondrial disease.