Date: Monday 08 July 2024
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Location:
The Curve lecture theatre and online via MS Teams,
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About this lecture
"An Endocrinologist’s Journey through Gender Medicine"
In this lecture, Professor Leighton Seal will describe how the field of gender medicine has advanced over the course of his career, reflect on his experience at St George’s, and speak about the future of gender medicine in the UK.
Gender medicine has become recognised as an important topic for many medical training curricula. In his lecture, Professor Seal will outline his early career and how this led him to join the adult gender identity clinic at Charing Cross Hospital and thereby develop his interest in gender identity healthcare. He will also discuss how he went on to establish the endocrine service at the largest gender identity service in the UK.
Professor Seal will share how endocrine treatment for people with gender incongruence has evolved as our knowledge of HRT safety has progressed. He will also discuss the treatment of non-binary people and how our knowledge of treating people undergoing a binary transition of gender can inform practice in this area.
Professor Seal will share his reflections on how his educational experience at St George’s was invaluable in his appointment as the clinical co-director of the national training programme in Gender Identity Healthcare at the Royal College of Physicians. This programme, for the first time, provides gender specialists from many clinical backgrounds with a recognised credential in this discipline.
About Professor Leighton Seal
Professor Seal was brought up in Wales and trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, where he was awarded the Betuel Prize in Medicine by the University of London. His postgraduate training was at the Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London. He gained a Welcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship to undertake his PhD in physiology looking at hypothalamic pituitary control mechanisms including reproduction, food intake and obesity.
He has been a consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at St George’s Hospital since 2003. He is also the consultant Endocrinologist at the Adult Gender Identity Clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he is the lead of the endocrine service. This is one of the largest gender identity clinics in the world.
He is the clinical co-director of the Royal College of Physicians Gender Identity Healthcare Programme and has led the development and delivery of this course.
Professor Seal was selected by the executive board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to be a co-author of the chapter describing the treatment of people with a non-binary gender in the Standards of Care Version 8 (SoC v8) revision.
He is a founder member of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS) and is currently the treasurer of this organisation.
He has published extensively in the field of gender medicine and is the one of the foremost endocrine clinicians in hormone replacement for gender non-conforming people in the UK. His research interest is in endocrine treatment of people with gender incongruence. His publications include reviews, book chapters and original research in the field of gender non-conforming medicine.
At St George’s, University of London, he is the responsible examiner for workplace-based assessment and the co-lead for the MBBS5 Life Maintenance and final year advanced clinical practice week modules.
About our inaugural lectures
St George's newly arrived or promoted professors are invited to give an Inaugural Lecture to mark this milestone in their academic careers.
Professors use the opportunity to introduce themselves, update colleagues on current and future research plans and share their research with wider audiences. It is also a chance to celebrate the support from friends and family, and from colleagues, mentors and collaborators past and present.
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