Karen W. Gripp, MD, FACMG is the Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at the Nemours Childrens' Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the S. Kimmel Medical College at T. Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Gripp is board certified in pediatrics and medical genetics. She serves as the VP Clinical Genetics of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Board of Directors.
Her clinical research focuses on Costello syndrome and other RASopathies. She has been instrumental in delineating novel conditions including Aymé-Gripp syndrome, lateral meningocele syndrome and most recently, fetal fentanyl syndrome. Dr. Gripp has co-authored >200 peer reviewed publications. Her interest in machine learning supported facial feature analysis in the context of clinical genetics led her to collaborate with FDNA, the company offering the Face2Gene application. Dr. Gripp's professional activities include participation in the ClinGen expert panels on RASopathies and on inherited cancer predisposition.