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Susan D. Boulware, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
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Asst Prof of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatrics

Clinician

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Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes

1 Longwharf Drive

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

About

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)

Asst Prof of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatrics; Clinician

Biography

Dr. Boulware has an interest in disorders of growth and development having published several papers looking at the metabolic actions of IGF-1, a hormone critical to childhood growth. She provides care to children with general disorders of the endocrine system (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, testes or ovaries). She is the pediatric endocrinologist in the interdisciplinary Yale Clinic for Children with Differences in Sex Development and she is the Medical Director of the Interdisciplinary Yale Gender Program offering care to gender-expansive youth.

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Education & Training

Resident
University of Texas Medical School (1987)
MD
University of Texas at San Antonio (1984)
Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine

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Frequent collaborators of Susan D. Boulware's published research.

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1995

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    FLAGS Research Award

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    Clinical Associate Physician Award

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    Training Grant for Clinical Investigation

Clinical Care

Overview

Susan D. Boulware, MD, is a pediatric endocrinologist who cares for patients with general pediatric endocrine disorders, including disorders of growth, puberty, the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, and pituitary gland. In addition, she is the Medical Director of the Yale Gender Program, an interdisciplinary program which provides family-centered care for children, teens, and young adults whose gender (internal sense of self) does not align with their assigned sex at birth and who are seeking gender-affirming consultation and care.

“The goal for our program is to bring these patients in and embrace them, their life, and their journey,” she says.

Dr. Boulware works with a large team of specialists that includes other endocrinologists, child and adolescent psychologists, child psychiatrists, affirming gynecologists, reproductive medicine specialists, a lawyer, a medical ethicist, a chaplain and liaisons/consultants from the transgender community. “These can be complicated cases, and we need to take into consideration all of the medical and psychological issues that these patients will face,” she says. Some patients have been subjected to transphobia that can become internalized, leading to poor self-esteem and in the most severe of cases can lead to self-hate. “They also come with other medical problems just as any patient would, and we want to make sure to really care for the entire patient,” she says.

Dr. Boulware finds her work to be both amazing and rewarding every day. “I think we're able to really help bring these kids out of these shells,” she says, “and they leave supported and feeling hopeful.”

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Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes

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Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes

1 Longwharf Drive

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

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