DanielJDriscollMDPhD

Summary

• Dr. Dan Driscoll is a tenured Professor in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism (Department of Pediatrics) and the John T. and Winifred M. Hayward Professor of Genetics Research at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He became faculty at the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1989 after finishing his Medical Genetics fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
  
  He has been conducting clinical and laboratory research on Prader-Willi syndrome since the late 1980’s. His group has been a major contributor to the understanding of the genetics of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and genomic imprinting in the PWS region, as well as to the elucidation of the natural history of PWS. He was the principal investigator for the PWS component of an NIH funded 12 year national Rare Disease Center grant on the “Natural History of PWS”. He is currently Chair of the Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board for the International Prader-Willi Syndrome Organization (IPWSO) which represents over 100 countries around the world.