Virginia V. Michels, M.D., Minnesota

Dr. Virginia Michels has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, since 1990. A graduate of Marquette University, magna cum laude, she received her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and completed postgraduate fellowships in Milwaukee and at Baylor College of Medicine.

She serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for Newborn Metabolic Screening of the Minnesota State Health Department, and has served on the medical advisory board of the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association 1987-1992.

Dr. Michels has lectured widely on her area of primary research, inherited cardiovascular disease, including visiting professorships in Okinawa, Japan, and Prague, Czechoslovakia.

As published in the March 1995 issue of VHL Family Forum, 3:1