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Medical Genetics and Genomics
medical genetics, differences of sex development
Dr. Eric J. Vilain is a board-certified UCI Health pediatrician who specializes in genetic and genomic medicine.
Vilain serves as associate vice chancellor for clinical and translational research and scientific affairs for the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences and director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UC Irvine.
He received his medical degree at the Faculté de Médecine Paris-Descartes and a doctor of Philosophy degree in genetics from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris, France. Next. he completed residencies in general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, followed by a residency in pediatric medical genetics and a fellowship at clinical biochemical genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he went on to serve as a faculty member, physician and prolific genetics researcher for two decades.
Before joining the UCI School of Medicine and the College of Health Sciences, he most recently worked at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research and was the A. James Clark Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics.
Vilain's clinical and research emphasis has long been on differences of sex development and medical genetics.
He sees patients at UCI Medical Center in Orange.
