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Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph D.
Chairman of the Medical Affairs Committee
Birmingham, Alabama

Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph D., is one of the leading clinical experts and clinical researchers in the field of NF and has worked with the Foundation for over 15 years. He has served as Chairman of the Foundation's Clinical Care Advisory Board and as Chairman of the Foundation's Medical Policy Committee. He currently serves as Chair of the newly created Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Korf also holds the Wayne H. Finley and Sara Crews Finley Chair of Medical Genetics at UAB.

Before joining UAB, Korf was medical director of the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, a program devoted to integrating genetics into medical practice for major Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Boston. He was associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and directed Harvard's postdoctoral training in medical and laboratory genetics. He is board certified in pediatrics, neurology (child neurology), clinical genetics, cytogenetics and clinical molecular genetics.

Before assuming responsibility for clinical genetics for in the Harvard-Partners system, he was director of the clinical genetics program at Children's Hospital in Boston from 1986 to 1999 and director of the clinical genetics program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Korf is president of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics. He has completed a term as vice-president for clinical genetics for the American College of Medical Genetics and was a founding fellow of that organization. After receiving undergraduate and medical degrees from Cornell University and a PhD from Rockefeller University, Dr. Korf completed a residency in pediatrics, a fellowship in genetics at Children's Hospital, Boston, and a residency in neurology in the Longwood Area Neurology Training Program at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Korf is the author of four books and numerous scientific articles including, Neurofibromatosis: A Handbook for Patients, Families, and Health Care Professionals (co-authored with CTF Director of Medical Affairs Emeritus, Dr. Allan E. Rubenstein). He serves on the editorial board of Genetics in Medicine and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

He is also a coeditor of Current Protocols in Human Genetics and is a coeditor of the fifth edition of Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics.