PKU Treatment Centers

Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center
Barbara Marcelo Evans, M.D., Medical Director - (856) 342-2094
Ann Starr, RD, Nutritionist - (856) 342-2290

The Children's Hospital at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Anna Haratounian, M.D., Medical Director - (973) 926-6897
Carol Garnat, MA, Clinical Nurse Specialist - (973) 926-6898

Saint Peter’s University Hospital
Debra-Lynn Day-Salvatore, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP, FACMG, Director, Institute for Genetic Medicine
Nelly Jouayed Oundjian, MD FACMG, Director, Section of Pediatrics
(732)-745-6659

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Paige Kaplan, M.D., Medical Director
Irma Payan, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Kristen Potter, Newborn Screening Program Coordinator\
(215)-590-3376

FYI: Current thinking among medical specialists is that persons with PKU need to follow a low phenylalanine diet for life. Women of child bearing age with elevated blood levels of phenylalanine are at high risk of having infants with severe heart and/or brain defects known as Maternal PKU Syndrome. It is of particular importance that any female with PKU who may become pregnant follows a low phenylalanine diet even before she becomes pregnant. If you are a woman or female adolescent and you have PKU, speak with your doctor or call one of the treatment centers listed above for critical information.

Contact: Marilyn Gorney-Daley, DO, MPH
E-mail:
Or telephone (609)-984-0755