SEED is a novel interactive session series being hosted by the Pediatric Endocrine Society that aims to enhance clinical learning for medical students and increase their exposure to pediatric endocrinology.
Title: Differences of Sex Development: Overview for the future Pediatric Endocrinologist
Brief Description: This talk, geared for medical students, will explore the biological diversity within sexual development, reviewing the way the body’s genes and hormones drive genital development and discussing a potential approach to utilize when seeing infants where there is concern for ambiguous genitalia.
Learning objectives:
1. Define differences of sex development
2. Describe the transition from genes to phenotype in sex determination and differentiation
3. Discuss initial evaluation of children with genital ambiguity
Speaker:
Kathryn Blew, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology
Duke University