Anne Comi

Comi graduated from College of the Holy Cross in 1989 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.^[1] She earned a M.D. at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine in 1993.^[2] She completed a residency in neurology at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo in 1996 and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1999. She specializes in the treatment of Sturge–Weber syndrome and disorders due to vascular malformation.^[3][4]

Comi has served as the director of the Hunter Nelson Sturge-Weber Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute since 2002.^[3] She is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.^[3]

In 2013, Comi and her research team identified a somatic mutation on the GNAQ gene as the cause of Sturge-Weber Syndrome, a discovery that significantly advanced the understanding of the disease and potential treatments. ^[5]