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Meet Our Newest Medical Advisor!

Pediatric Endocrinologist, Geneticist and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Specialist

    CARES is pleased to welcome Dr. Kyriakie Sarafoglou to its medical advisory board.  Dr. Sarafoglou is the director of the Center for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Intersexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a multi-disciplinary center that specializes in the care of CAH patients. 

     In addition to her role as director at the Center for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Intersexuality, Dr. Sarafoglou is an active researcher.  Her current research, which is both NIH and privately funded, examines growth and fertility.  She is also collaborating with scientists at the Mayo Clinic on a study that is working to improve the monitoring of CAH and is leading a workgroup of Minnesota Pediatric Endocrinologists to standardize the care of CAH patients.

      Dr. Sarafoglou serves as the Advisor to MDH Newborn Screening Program and Advisor to Upper Midwest States on 2^nd tier CAH Newborn Screening.  She is also the author of “Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: A Handbook for Patients and Their Family,” which will be available in the near future through CARES Foundation, Inc., and is editing/writing a textbook for McGraw Hill (“Essential Pediatric Endocrinology and Inborn Errors of Metabolism”).  CARES  is very pleased to have Dr. Sarafoglou on its Medical Advisory Board and looks forward to working with her.

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