Marco danon

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Marco Danon, MD Director of Medical Education

Dr. Marco Danon is a former Fulbright Scholar, who has taught pediatric residents for more than 25 years, including serving as an Assistant Professor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General for 20 years. Dr. Danon completed his three-year pediatric residency at Wayne State University Children's Hospital of Michigan and became a fellow in pediatric endocrinology and metabolism at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital. During his tenure as faculty in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Danon received the Best Teacher Award on various occasions. He became Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Maimonides Medical Center in 1991. He assumed his current role at Miami Children's Hospital in May 1997.

Miami Children's Hospital's Medical Education Program has enjoyed great success under the leadership of Dr. Danon. Residents have been selected from the finest medical schools in the country and abroad and have earned high scores on the American Board of Pediatrics Intraining Examination. Of the 2002 graduates, 100 percent who took the Pediatric Board Exam passed on their first attempt.

Dr. Danon has enriched the program by introducing medical students from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York; Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in South Florida; the University of Miami School of Medicine; and St. George's Medical School in Grenada. The department also offers observerships to top physicians from around the world.