2022 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Paul Orchard develops life-saving gene therapy treatment


Dr. Paul Orchard made history Sept. 27, 2021, when his pediatric patient became the first person in the United States to receive life-saving gene therapy treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy, a rare, progressive and generally fatal genetic disease.

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