– Dr. Brad Tinkle is the Medical Director of Clinical Genetics at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Chicago.

– His clinics include Ehlers-Danlos (for adults, children, and families) and pediatric Down’s Syndrome.

– Prior to his current position, Dr. Tinkle was a clinical and clinical molecular geneticist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).

– He specializes in caring for individuals with heritable connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, Marfan syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, and achondroplasia among the many.

– Dr. Tinkle served as director of the Skeletal Dysplasia Center (CCHMC), co-director of the Marfan/Ehlers-Danlos syndrome clinic, as well as director of the Connective Tissue Clinic.

– He serves as associate director in the Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory at CCHMC.

– Dr. Tinkle formerly served on the Board of Directors and on the Professional Advisory Network of the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation.

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– Dr. Tinkle earned a bachelor’s in science for engineering (BSE) in genetic engineering from Purdue University in 1989.

– He received his Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the George Washington University in the District of Columbia in 1995.

– He attended medical school at Indiana University and completed a pediatric/clinical genetics residency at CCHMC.

– He also finished a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at CCHMC following residency.

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