Biography:

Professor Buist earned his medical degrees Scotland with later training in Biochemical Genetics in Denver Colorado. For 35 years he ran the largest Metabolic Clinic in the US along with a lab involved in multiple clinical and research projects that characterized at least 10 new genetic disorders. He was intimately involved in the start of Newborn Screening in a program well known for innovation; being the first to introduce many of the tests currently used. He developed radically new nutritional products for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism. He is well known internationally and has published >150 articles in research journals.