Lorraine Potocki

Lorraine Potocki, born 18 August 1961, is a medical geneticist and educator at Texas Children's Hospital and a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She began fellowship training in clinical genetics at Texas Children's in 1994 and joined its faculty in 1996, providing diagnosis, counseling and management for children and families with developmental and genetic conditions. She directs the Smith-Magenis Syndrome Multidisciplinary Clinic and the Genetics and Genomics Pathway of the Baylor medical school curriculum, and serves as its Vice Chair for Undergraduate Medical Education. She is credited with the discovery of two genetic syndromes, Potocki-Lupski syndrome and Potocki-Shaffer syndrome, and describes herself as best known for research and clinical care in those two conditions and in Smith-Magenis syndrome.