Meet the ATA 2013 Spring Meeting Faculty
Dr. Anne Cappola will be the speaker of "Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals" during the Spring Symposium on Friday, April 26, 2013.Anne Cappola, MD, ScM is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cappola is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She was a resident in Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and a fellow in Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and a fellowship in the Epidemiology of Aging at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Cappola directs an NIH-funded research program on the hormonal alterations that occur with aging and the clinical impact of these changes, including the clinical impact of subclinical thyroid dysfunction in older individuals. She is a Contributing Editor for JAMA. She currently serves on the ATA's Annual Meeting Program Committee and Thyroid Hormone Replacement Task Force.
Dr. Stagnaro-Green will be the speaker of "Thyroid Hormone Therapy in Special Circumstances: Pregnancy" during the Spring Symposium on Friday, April 26, 2013. He is senior associate dean for education at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences where he is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1990, Dr. Stagnaro-Green reported in JAMA the seminal finding linking thyroid antibody positivity in euthyroid women to a doubling of the rate of spontaneous miscarriage. His research focuses on thyroid antibodies and miscarriage, the relationship between thyroid dysfunction and preterm delivery, and postpartum thyroiditis. He presently chairs the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Task Force on Thyroid and Pregnancy and led the ATA initiative which developed clinical guidelines for thyroid disease in pregnant women. |
"Patients show up in our offices taking a variety of over-the-counter "natural" supplements purported to boost thyroid function. My lecture will review what patients are taking, how nutraceuticals and dietary supplements are regulated, and what is known about their clinical effects on thyroid function. This session will provide practical information to providers about how to counsel patients with thyroid disorders on the use and misuse of non-prescription thyroid supplements."- Anne Cappola, MD 
"The session on thyroid and pregnancy will provide an up to date overview of the quickly evolving literature on thyroid and pregnancy. Particular focus will be placed on ongoing controversies such as treating subclinical hypothyroidism and whether or not all pregnant women should be screened for thyroid disease." Alex Stagnaro-Green, MD