EFL055
Join host Chase Hendrickson, MD, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in a discussion about a recent systematic review and meta-analysis in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism about the role for T3 replacement in the treatment of people with hypothyroidism. He talks with Andrew Crawford, MD, from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and guest expert James Hennessey, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The article featured this month, by Esberard de Lima Beltrão et al, was first published online in JCEM in September 2024: “Treatment Preferences in Patients With Hypothyroidism.”
Meet the Speakers
James V. Hennessey, MD, is director of clinical endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and completed a medical residency at the New Britain Hospital in Connecticut. Dr. Hennessey served with the United States Air Force (USAF) as an internist/flight surgeon. While on active duty, he completed subspecialty training in endocrinology and metabolism at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he conducted research in thyroxine bioequivalence. Dr. Hennessey served as the chief of endocrinology at USAF Medical Center Wright-Patterson in Ohio and later joined the faculty at Wright State University School of Medicine as the director of clinical clerkships, maintaining a clinical-teaching practice at Wright State and in thyroidology at Wright-Patterson Medical Center. Upon arrival at Brown University Medical School, in Providence, R.I., he transferred to the Air National Guard as a flight surgeon and finally as Rhode Island state surgeon, retiring in 2006 after a 25-year USAF career. While at Brown, he was associate director for clinical education in the Division of Endocrinology at Rhode Island Hospital and directed the Medical School Endocrine Pathophysiology course. Dr. Hennessey’s career has focused on the clinical education of medical students, resident physicians in internal medicine, and fellows in endocrinology and metabolism. In this capacity, he has conducted lectures, precepted clinical care, and carried out original and sponsored clinical research with his trainees. Currently he is pursuing his clinical interest in thyroid disease with expanding clinical programs.
Andrew Crawford, MD, is an assistant professor medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He attended Brown University, where he obtained an ScB in biology and his MD. He completed internal medicine residency and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism fellowship training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Crawford is also the program director of the fellowship program in the endocrinology section at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. His clinical focus is on the evaluation and management of thyroid nodules and cancer.
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Meet the Host
Chase Hendrickson, MD, MPH, practices general endocrinology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he is an associate program director for the endocrinology fellowship program. His interests include endocrine education, teaching inferential methods, and quality improvement.
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