Robert Porter Erickson, American genetics researcher, educator, clinician. Diplomate American Board Pediatrics, American College Medical Genetics. Guggenheim fellow, Paris, 1975, Eleanor Roosevelt fellow, London, 1983; Fogarty Senior International fellow, 1996, Burroughs Wellcome travel fellow, 1996; Fulbright grantee, London, 1983, National Institutes of Health grantee, since 1971.