Vicky Holets Whittemore, Ph.D., is vice president and director of science at the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance in Silver Spring, Md. Dr. Whittemore has served as a member and chair of the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association board of directors, as well as vice president and medical director. She has also served on the board of directors of the Genetic Alliance and is currently vice-chair of the National Coalition for Health professional Education in Genetics. She is a member of the CETT Review Panel for the Office of Rare Disorders, NIH. She received her undergraduate degree in zoology from Iowa State University and a doctorate in anatomy from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Whittemore did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine, and a Fogarty Fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an associate professor at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Department of Neurological Surgery, at the University of Miami, Fla., before leaving to join the staff of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance in 1994.