Fransiska Malfait (MD, PhD) is Chief of Clinic at the Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital and an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium, where she directs the research, clinical service, and laboratory facility for diagnosis and genetic testing for the Ehlers–Danlos syndromes and other heritable disorders of connective tissue. She is a member of the steering committee of the International EDS Consortium, the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the EDS Society, Senior disease coordinator for EDS in the European Reference Network on rare musculoskeletal diseases (ReConnet), and member of the European Reference Networks on rare vascular diseases (VASCERN) and rare skin diseases (ERN Skin).