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Myron Genel, MD, FAAP, FACPM

Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Clinical Professor of Nursing
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Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Clinical Professor of Nursing

Biography

Dr. Genel joined the medical school faculty in September 1971 and was Associate Dean, Government and Community Affairs at Yale School of Medicine 1985-2004. Previously he was chief of the section of pediatric endocrinology and program director of the Children's Clinical Research Center. He is the author or co-author of more than 140 original articles and has made numerous presentations at national and international scientific meetings.

Dr. Genel has served at the interface between biomedical research, clinical endocrinology and public policy in many capacities. He was a member of the National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee from 2005-2008, the HHS Secretery's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections(SACHRP) from 2006-2009 and a charter member of the Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable which met from 2000-2004. He is a founder of the Connecticut Stem Cell Coalition and since 2005 has been a member of Connecticut's Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee which oversees distribution of $100 million in state funds to support embryonic stem cell research. Dr. Genel has been a consultant to the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission on issues relating to gender identity in elite athletic competition.

Dr. Genel was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 1992, has been a member of its executive council since 2000 and the Academy's president for two years beginning July 2008. For twenty-seven years beginning in 1984 he directed the public affairs activities of three major pediatric academic and research societies: the American Pediatric Society, the Association of American Medical School Department Chairs and the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Genel was a member of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs for seven years, serving as its chair in l999-2000, and of the governing council of the AMA Section on Medical Schools for ten years, serving as the section's chair 2003-2004. A Distinguished Service member of the Association of American Medical Colleges(AAMC), he was chair of the AAMC's Council of Academic Societies in 1990-91. Dr. Genel is the recipient of a number of awards including the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award from the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) in 1999, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2003, the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations in 2004 and the Presidents Award for Distinguished Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2010.

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Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Fellow
National Institutes of Health, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1971)
Instructor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1969)
Fellow
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (1967)
Pediatrician
US Army Tropical Research Lab, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1966)
MD
University of Pennsylvania (1961)
Resident
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Resident
Johns Hopkins Hospital

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Endocrinology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pediatrics
    Original Certification Date
    1978
  • Pediatrics

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pediatrics
    Original Certification Date
    1967

Research

Overview


Dr. Myron Genel is actively engaged in directing public policy relating to health care for children and to clinical research. Dr. Genel received the 2004 Joseph W. St. Geme Leadership Award, one of the highest honors in academic pediatrics, primarily for two decades' leadership of the Public Policy Council of the American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research and Association of American Pediatric Department Chairs, which he founded and directed for 27 years until 2011. Previously he was the recipient of the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association and was named a Distinguished Service Member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2005. He served as chair of the American Medical Association's Section on Medical Schools and its Council on Scientific Affairs, as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable and was president of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering for two years beginning in July, 2008. Dr. Genel was a member of the National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee from 2005-2008 and the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) for three years beginning in June 2006. He was a founder of the Connecticut Stem Cell Coalition and has been a member of the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee since its inception in 2005. He is a member of the Planning Committee for StemCONN 11, the third biennial international symposium on stem cell research scheduled for March 2011.

Dr. Genel is interested in disorders of sexual differentiation and gender verification procedures. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission's Working Group on Transsexual Athletes which drafted criteria, later approved by the IOC, which permits transsexual athletes to compete in international athletic competition. A report, co-authored with IOC Medical Commission chair Arne Ljungqvist, appears in the December 2005 Medicine and Sport special issue of The Lancet. In 2010 he helped organize two international conferences on gender identity for elite women's athletic competition sponsored by the IOC and the International Association of Athletic Federations(IAAF)

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Myron Genel's published research.

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    President's Award for Distinguished Service

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    Jimmy L. Simon Distinguished Lectureship

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    Distinguished Service Award

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    Joseph W. St. Geme Leadership Award.

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    Distinguished Service Award

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