Board of Directors
Francie Fitzgerald
Francie Fitzgerald is a clinical social worker providing dialectical behavior therapies at the Ebright Collaborative in Wilmington, Delaware. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame where she studied neuroscience, she pursued her Masters in Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. Since being diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome at the age of 15, Francie has devoted herself wholeheartedly to bettering the lives of those affected by dysautonomia and related conditions. Francie was ultimately diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome after developing multiple pain syndromes and immune-mediated co-morbidities. She is active in the review of research proposals to private philanthropies and nonprofit organizations. Her professional passion is adapting empirically supported mental health therapies to chronic illness patient populations and increasing health equity in her hometown of Philadelphia.
