Physician
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Dacre Knight has been a member of the Mayo Clinic staff since August 2019. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, he served in the U.S. Air Force with deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan. Dr. Knight completed his Master's degree in Biodefense at George Mason University, and his internal medicine residency at the University of Mississippi. Currently, he serves as a consultant in the Division of General Internal Medicine and is the Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic. His specialty areas include medical management for the medically complex patient, Central Sensitization Syndrome, Hypermobility Disorders, Artificial Intelligence, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. His research interests include clinical, social and genetic factors associated with inherited disorders of the connective tissue. In collaboration with colleagues from the areas of rheumatology, neurology, psychology, cardiology and medical genomics, Dr. Knight seeks to identify novel risk factors associated with chronic pain and chronic fatigue, and to improve the diagnostic accuracy and measurement precision of clinical methods of physical exam. Dr. Knight is further interested in using artificial intelligence to understand the epigenetic factors that influence disparities in the clinical manifestation of chronic illnesses. He is a former NCAA collegiate soccer athlete, and when he is not working he enjoys serving as a Cub Scout leader and traveling with his wife and four children.
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