Transgender Medicine

Internal medicine resident Tran Nguyen, MD, spoke to the American Heart Association for an article about her new study, which indicates transgender men and women have a higher risk of heart attack. The study was also highlighted by Health Day and U.S. News & World Report.

Transgender individuals may be at higher risk for heart disease, according to a review article published by Michael S. Irwig, MD, associate professor of medicine, in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders.

Michael S. Irwig, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Andrology Center, authored a review article on testosterone therapy for transgender men, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal.

George Washington University Researcher Michael S. Irwig, M.D. published a first-of-its-kind survey assessing the attitudes and practice patterns of transgender care by endocrinologists, who often treat transgender patients with hormone therapy. The survey identified that while…

Dr. Michael S. Irwig, assistant professor of Medicine, Dr. Anton Trinidad, associate professor of Psychiatry, and Matthew St. Peter, a fourth year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-authored an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine titled, “Self-Castration by a…