Tinkle, Brad T.: - Brad T. Tinkle, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinical geneticist at Peyton Manning Hospital. 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. He 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 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He also finished a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at Cincinnati Children's following residency. He was recently the Head of Genetics at Advocate Healthcare before moving to Peyton Manning Hospital. He currently serves on several advisory boards including the Ehlers-Danlos Society as well as the Steering Committee of the International Consortium on Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes. He recently edited the 2017 American Journal of Medical Genetics on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes which included the new diagnostic criteria and a critical review and detailed descriptions of all of the EDS types.