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Dr. Fran Kendall is the Founder of VMP Genetics. As a geneticist, she has supported genetic patients for the last three decades. She authored Shades of Grief, a book that highlights her walk through grief over personal struggles and her professional work as a geneticist.

Updates on several topics that I felt would be useful or of interest to the EDS community

Dr Fran Kendall of VMP Genetics is published in the online October version of Movement Disorders Clinical Practice.

The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation hosts a webinar with 4 renown mitochondrial disease experts (Dr Fran Kendall being one of them) to answer your questions about the coronavirus.

Not all cars, houses, plumbers, electricians - OR doctors- are the same. An M.D. seeing an occasional rare disease case vs. specializing in the diagnosis and management of mitochondrial or other rare disorders brings two very different skill sets to the examination table. There is tremendous value in knowledge and experience and that a second opinion consultation may bring you the answers you have been searching for.

Among the multitude of challenges confronted by both children and adults with mitochondrial disease are those they face in the workplace and school environment as they attempt to navigate their disease and strive for a typical existence.

One, two, three makes a baby boy! I discuss the recent birth of a child conceived from the DNA of three parents, the revolutionary technique utilized, and the issues surrounding its use.

Tucked away in the solitude of a monastery located in the modern Czech republic, Gregor Mendel labored tirelessly documenting predictable patterns of traits transmitted through generations of ordinary peas.