Reed E. Pyeritz, William Smilow Professor of Medicine emeritus in the Perelman School of Medicine, has been named by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) to serve on the Committee on Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue Disorders and Disability. The committee serves as an advisory body for the Social Security Administration. It will use published evidence and professional experience to develop a report that will examine the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of the selected conditions, as well as levels of associated functional limitation, in adults and children in the U.S. population.