Dr. Wasserstein is a Professor of Pediatric and Genetics and a Raizin Distinguished Faculty Scholar in Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is Co-Director of the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research Center and the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Genetic Medicine at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. A board-certified biochemical geneticist and pediatrician, Dr. Wasserstein diagnoses and manages individuals with inborn errors of metabolism. She is an international leader in the diagnosis and management of acid sphingomyelinase deficiency. She directs NIH-funded research activities focused on expanding newborn screening, enhancing its accuracy, and evaluating the practical and ethical implications of expansion through exploration of parental perspectives.