Geri Landman, M.D., M.P.H., Pediatrician, Founder of Moonshots for Unicorns

Geri Landman, M.D., M.P.H.

Pediatrician Founder of Moonshots for Unicorns

Geri Landman MD, MPH is a board-certified pediatrician. She attended medical school at UCSF, completed her residency in pediatrics at the Harvard’s Boston Combined Residency Program and has a master’s in public health from UC Berkeley. Dr. Landman was previously on faculty at UCSF and now practices primary care pediatrics in her community in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, her most relevant training may come from being Mom to Lucy, a three-year-old girl with an ultra-rare and severe neurologic disorder, PGAP3-CDG. At the time of her diagnosis 2 years ago, there were no known treatments or therapies, or even any actively being researched anywhere in the world. Refusing to accept the status quo, Geri founded Moonshots for Unicorns, a 501c3 non-profit aimed at finding therapies for PGAP3 and other single gene disorders. In addition to serving on the Board of this foundation, where she has worked with multiple scientific collaborators to develop disease models and genetic therapies for PGAP3, she continues to see patients in the clinic, in which role she is an advocate for early and accessible genetic testing for neurodevelopmental disorders.