Clair Francomano

Dr Clair Francomano is a leading genetics professor. Dr Clair Francomano has been involved in the care of individuals with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other hereditary disorders of connective tissue throughout her career. During her years at the National Institutes of Health, she spearheaded a longitudinal study on the natural history of EDS that ran for over 20 years.

Since 2019, Dr Francomano has worked as a professor of medical and molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the Residency Training Program in Genetics at Indiana University.  She was  Chief of the Human Genetics and Integrative Medicine Section in the Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging from 2001-2005  and chief of the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health from 1996-2001. Dr Francomano attended Yale College as an undergraduate and received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she trained in internal medicine and medical genetics.  She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters.