Dr. Phillips is a Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Geneticist who has diagnosed, treated and cared for many children and adults with many genetic diseases including inborn errors of metabolism. He is a PI on clinical trials to treat Achondroplasia, Fatty Acid Oxidative Disorders, Methylmalonic Acidemia, Propionic Acidemia and PKU. His research focus has been on disorders that have heterogeneous causes, reduced penetrance and variable expression (Familial Growth Hormone Deficiency, Hereditable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis). He is a Co-PI of our Vanderbilt Center for Undiagnosed Diseases that is a part of the NIH Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN).