Manu S. Raam, MD

Manu S. Raam, M.D., is a pediatrician who focuses on treating children with special healthcare needs in both resource-limited international settings and local lower-income and underinsured communities. He is the medical director of the osteogenesis imperfecta program at Shriners Children’s Southern California and supervises the medical management of patients with genetic bone disorders, including X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets and other skeletal dysplasias. He is a primary investigator in phase III clinical trials pertaining to the above diagnoses.

He also focuses on the pediatric care of patients with spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis and craniofacial conditions. Apart from his role at Shriners Children’s, he is also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he treats general pediatric patients as well as those with spina bifida and rehabilitation-related diagnoses.