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Join host Chase Hendrickson, MD, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in a discussion about a recently published article in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism that investigates the impact of primary hyperparathyroidism on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Those who take care of primary hyperparathyroidism will have encountered the challenge of managing it around pregnancy and will be familiar with how little data we have to guide us there. The authors utilize an observational methodology, so we will do our usual, careful walk through the study design to highlight those intrinsic limitations. Dr. Hendrickson talks with Alyson K. Myers, MD, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and guest expert Shonni J. Silverberg, MD, from Columbia University. The article featured this month, by Sant et al, was published in the May 2025 issue of JCEM: “Fertility and Pregnancy Outcomes in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Observations From a Large Insured Population.”
Meet the Speakers
Shonni J. Silverberg, MD, is professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College and trained in internal medicine at Cornell and endocrinology at Columbia. Currently, she serves as director of the Metabolic Bone Diseases Unit and medical director of The Parathyroid Center at Columbia. Her NIH-funded research program focused on primary hyperparathyroidism, leading to more than 200 publications. Dr. Silverberg has made major contributions to the current understanding of asymptomatic and normocalcemic variants of primary hyperparathyroidism; their natural history; as well as to the skeletal, renal, cardiovascular and neuropsychologic manifestations of primary hyperparathyroidism as it is seen today. She has served on all four International Consensus Panels on Primary Hyperparathyroidism from 2002–present, as well as on the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Primary Hyperparathyroidism Guidelines Panel (2016). Dr. Silverberg is also proud to serve as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hastings Center for Bioethics.
Alyson Myers, MD, is a full professor and the associate chair for faculty mentoring and community engagement in the Department of Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx, N.Y. She also is an adjunct associate professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where she also served as the medical director of inpatient diabetes for North Shore University Hospital from 2013–2021. Dr. Myers attended the University of Virginia, where she majored in French and minored in chemistry. After college, she returned home to Queens, N.Y., to teach junior high school math and science. A year later, she attended SUNY Downstate for medical school, where she was the four-year recipient of the President’s Award Scholarship. She completed a five-year combined internal medicine/psychiatry residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. During her fourth year, she was chief resident. After residency, she completed an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern. During fellowship, she received a T32 training grant in mood disorders and diabetes under the mentorship of Madhukar Trivedi, MD. In 2022, Dr. Myers was co-awarded a Center for Diabetes Translational Research grant to further examine and improve the health outcomes of persons with diabetic foot ulcers. Her goal is to lower the high rate of amputations of Black and Brown persons with diabetes in the Bronx by using multidisciplinary care and limb salvage techniques. Dr. Myers has several publications on the topics of diabetes disparities and diabetes technology. She has been a long-time reviewer for several journals, including Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, and Diabetes Care. Also, she is an active member of the Endocrine Society as an abstract reviewer, member of the Publications Core Committee, and a co-lead for the ExCEL Program, which provides leadership training for endocrine fellows and early career attendings. Dr. Myers has served two terms on the American Board of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism.
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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