CLAIR A. FRANCOMANO, M.D.

Director, Adult Genetics

Dr. Clair Francomano  received her undergraduate education at Yale University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and her MD degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her residency in the Department of Medicine and fellowship in medical genetics were also performed at Hopkins. She remained at Hopkins in the Center for Human Genetics, achieving the Rank of Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Francomano is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and by the American Board of Medical Genetics in both clinical genetics and clinical molecular genetics. 

She comes to GBMC from the National Institute on Aging, where she was Chief of the Human Genetics and Integrative Medicine Section, Laboratory of Genetics. Prior to this she served as Chief, Medical Genetics Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Dr. Francomano’s clinical interests center around the diagnosis and management of the skeletal dysplasias, including short stature and achondroplasia;  and hereditary connective tissue disorders such Stickler, Marfan, and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.

She is an honorary life member of the Little People of America and has served on the advisory board of that organization since 1987.  She has also served on the board of directors of the Human Growth Foundation and on the organizing committee for the Bone Dysplasia Society. Since 1995, she has served on the professional advisory board of the National Marfan Foundation and since 1999, on the executive committee of the International Society of Dysplasias of the Skeleton, of which she was President from 2001-2003.  She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Society of Human Genetics.