Genetic Disease Investigators
Researching the underlying medical causes of invisible and chronic illnesses
Purpose Driven Research
Genetic Disease Investigators, LLC, is a global leader in researching the underlying medical causes of invisible and chronic illnesses. Its research focuses on disorders of the autonomic nervous system (including Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and neurological dry eye), connective tissue disorders, and vascular inflammation.
Genetic Disease Investigators Advisory Board
David Callanan, MD
Board Member
Dr. Callanan has over 30 years of experience in Ophthalmology research & development. After receiving his MD at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, he accepted an Internal Medicine residency and ophthalmology residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital UT-Southwestern. He was a Heed Ophthalmic Foundation Fellow at the prestigious Eye Institute in US, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. He completed fellowships in Medical Retina with legendary Dr. J. Donald M. Gass and Vtreoretinal surgery with the Bascom Palmer faculty. He also received additional training in uveitis with Dr. Robert Nussenblatt at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Callanan joined Texas Retina Associates in 1993 and was appointed to the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School the same year.
Jesse Nord, Esq. The Nord Group
Board Member
Jesse Nord is a founding partner of The Nord Group LLP, a transactional entertainment law firm located in Los Angeles, California. The firm’s practice centers on the representation of individual writers, actors, directors, producers, and rights holders in their negotiations with studios and financiers.
Jesse is a zealous advocate for her clients, fiercely guarding their interests and ensuring they obtain the maximum value for their services and intellectual property. She obtained her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California.
As a patient of POTS Care, PLLC who has benefited from the support of TJ Nutrition products, Jesse has a personal connection to the work of Genetic Disease Investigators.
Gayle Karanges, O.D.
Board Member
Dr. Gayle Karanges has over 30 years of clinical practice with extensive medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic experience in eye disease. She is a clinical field director for MyEyeDoctor, responsible for over 50 locations for Capital Vision services in the Dallas and Houston areas. Dr. Karanges coaches and mentors over 50 optometrists to help them grow their clinical practices. She is a therapeutic and glaucoma specialist with expertise in practice management and the financial analysis of optometric practices.
Dr. Karanges is a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science and a Doctorate in optometry. She is also a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, with a biology major.
Dr. Karanges is a member of the American Optometric Association and the Texas Optometric Association. Read More…
Bill Thompson, O.D.
Board Member
Dr. Thompson is licensed at the highest level available by the Texas Optometry Board, is Board Certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Texas Optometric Association. Dr. Thompson is a past President of the Northeast Texas Optometric Society and is a member of the American Optometric Association.
Dr. Thompson has been appointed to serve on the Texas Optometry Board, the licensing and regulatory agency for the state of Texas. He earned his Doctor of Optometry degree at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee in 1981.
Dr. Thompson continues to enhance his knowledge and training in eye care through ongoing continuing education, is married with a daughter and son, and is active in his church.
About Dr. Diana Driscoll, OD, FAOO
Diana Driscoll, OD, FAAO
President of Genetic Disease Investigators
Diana Driscoll OD, FAAO, Founder and President of Genetic Disease Investigators, is a world-renowned invisible illness expert and foremost authority on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), chronic dry eye disease (DED), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), vagus nerve disorders, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), and similar “invisible” illnesses. She is the Clinical Director of POTS Care, the only clinic in the world dedicated to treating the underlying medical causes of POTS. Her patient evaluation technique, now called “The Driscoll ApproachTM” recognizes the inflammatory component in many cases of POTS, and is a dramatic departure from traditional evaluation and treatment of POTS.
Dr. Driscoll authored “The Driscoll Theory”, an in-depth, scientific publication revealing the propensity for high intracranial pressure in POTS patients that dramatically altered how the condition was evaluated and treated. She has also authored “Your Eyes and EDS”, was the chief author of the “Ophthalmology Medical Resource Guide” for Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation, and has received three patents to date. She was published in the Journal of VitreoRetinal Disease. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a Doctorate of Optometry from University of Houston, both summa cum laude.
See the research conducted by Genetic Disease Investigators, LLC
Press
New Patent Awarded For Dry Eye Treatment
Genetic Disease Investigators Receives New Patent for Correction of Organ Dysfunction
Dr. Diana Driscoll, Optometrist, discusses Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), and similar invisible illnesses.
POTS Care Clinical Director Launches POTS
Care PackageTM to Begin Self-Care Treatment of
POTS
POTS Care Provides Help for Long-COVID Patients