Dr. Emily L. Germain-Lee, a world-renowned pediatric endocrinologist, will join Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and UConn School of Medicine this fall from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, according to a news release from CCMC.
Germain-Lee will join the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at CCMC and UConn Health on Oct. 28 as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She will perform clinical care at CCMC and her research laboratory will be located at UConn Health.
“She has redefined the field of pediatric-endocrinology. Patients and families travel from all over the world seeking Dr. Germain-Lee’s care,” Dr. Juan Salazar, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and chief of pediatrics at Connecticut Children’s, said in the release.
Germain-Lee is a National Institutes of Health-funded physician-scientist specializing in the clinical care and translational research of genetic and metabolic bone diseases. Her research at UConn Health and Connecticut Children’s will continue to focus on Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy (AHO) and Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), two rare genetic bone disorders. Both conditions often lead to short stature, and AHO frequently involves severe hormonal dysfunction.
Germain-Lee has cared for children and adults from around the world with Albright disease.
Her research interests also include other rare diseases leading to bone and/or endocrine abnormalities such as skeletal dysplasias and Sturge-Weber Syndrome.
