Children’s National at PES 2026 - Children's National

The Children's National Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes is excited to have 13 posters and presentations at the upcoming Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES) annual meeting in San Francisco, California. The range of topics being presented reflects the breadth of research happening within the division. Many of the posters and presentations continue diving deeper into research presented at conferences across the globe last year. (below)

Poster sessions at PES 2026

• A Newly Identified Extracellular TSHR Variant and Early-Onset Non-Autoimmune Hyperthyroidism: Two Pediatric Case Reports, Christina Lee, Rachel Longendyke … Rebecca W. Persky
• Continuous Glucose Monitor Trends in Children with Glucokinase Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (GCK-MODY), Nicole Rangos, Chaitanya Sambangi, Abby Meyers
• Qualitative Interviews with Caregivers and Patients with Selected Genetic Causes of Short Stature, Raheem Seaforth, Niusha Shafaei, Kim Pitner, Roopa Shankar, Andrew Dauber
• Clinical Spectrum of a New Overgrowth Syndrome Due To SPIN4 Dysfunction, Ruta Navardauskaite, Sujin Park … Youn Hee Jee
• Bone Age Anomalies as Diagnostic Markers of Genetic Growth Disorders, Ruta Navardauskaite, Min Jae Kang, … Hiroki Morizono, Dongkyu Kim, Andrew Dauber, Youn Hee Jee
• Vosoritide Treatment Improves Linear Growth and Absolute Bone Content and Density in Children with Hypochondroplasia: A 12-Month Prospective Study, … Ruta Navardauskaite, Anqing Zhang, Niusha Shafaei, Raheem Seaforth, Andrew Dauber
• Vosoritide for Short Stature in Turner Syndrome: Interim results from a Prospective Single Center Trial, Roopa Shankar, Niusha Shafaei, Anqing Zhang, Niti Dham, Kim Pitner, Andrew Dauber
• Lymphocytic Hypophysitis In An 8-Year-Old With De Novo Deletion at Chromosome 3Q13.31, Christina Lee, Chelsi Flippo
• WNT/β-CATENIN Modulation by an Epigenetic Reader Gene, SPIN4, Sujin Park, Daniel Li, Yi-Wen Chen, Youn Hee Jee

Oral Abstract Sessions at PES 2026

• Glycemic Variability and Arterial Stiffness in Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Interim Analysis of the Young at Heart Study, Nicole Rangos, Elizabeth Estrada, Stephanie Chung
• A Phase 2 Basket Trial of Vosoritide in Children with Rasopathies, Acan and Npr2 Deficiency, Andrew Dauber, Anqing Zhang, Niusha Shafaei, Raheem Seaforth, Kim Pitner, Niti Dham, Roopa Shankar…

Symposium Speakers at PES 2026

• Meet the Professor: Challenging Thyroid Cases, Priya Vaidyanathan
• Navigating the Efficacy, Safety and Ethical implications of GLP-1 and SGLT-2 Therapies in Childhood Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, Elizabeth Estrada

Other notable recent research from the division includes a new international guideline for genetic testing in children with short stature and how vosoritide affects growth signaling in patients with hypochondroplasia.

Below are the posters and presentations from members of our team at conferences last year. We're excited for another year of research and collaboration with colleagues across the country and globe to improve the lives of children!

European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology

May 10-13, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark

Invited Symposium Speaker

• Molecular Basis of Short Stature, Andrew Dauber
• The evolving diagnostic landscape of hypochondroplasia, Andrew Dauber (Sponsored by BridgeBio)

PES: Pediatric Endocrine Society

May 15-18, 2025, National Harbor, MD

Special Interest Groups/ Presentations

• A Provider's Guide to Handling Weight Stigma and Body Image Concerns when Treating Youth with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, Eleanor Mackey
• Prenatal DSD diagnosis: What Does a Pediatric Endocrinologist Need to Know, *Tucker Pyle

Posters

• Multicenter study of Practice Patterns and Disparities in Hormone Replacement Therapy in Turner syndrome, Lori Fingerhut, …Roopa Kanakatti Shankar
• Cross-sectional Study of FSH values in pre-pubertal girls with Turner syndrome, Victoria Helena Bustamante Velez, Roopa Kanakatti Shankar
• IGF-1 Values in Hypochondroplasia and Effects of Vosoritide, Despoina Galetaki, Anqing Zhang, … Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, Kim Pitner, Niusha Shafaei, Raheem Seaforth, Andrew Dauber
• Improving Outcomes in Patients with Congenital Hypothyroidism, Rachel Longendyke, Despoina Galetaki, Mai Emily Segawa, Andrew Dauber, Adrianne Darissaw, Melody Shi
• Avoiding pamidronate adverse effects in infants recovering from cardiac surgery, Costas Voulgaropoulos
• Precocious Puberty in a Patient with P4HB-associated Cole-Carpenter Syndrome type 1, *Melody Shi…
• Youth with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression: a Quality Improvement Study to Improve Access to Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Outcomes, *Despoina Galetaki, Rachel Longendyke, Angelica Eddington, Jasmine Roberts, Elizabeth Estrada
• Severe Hypothyroidism due to Iodine Deficiency in an Infant with Short Bowel Syndrome Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition, *Chaitanya Sambangi < /a>and Priya Vaidyanathan
• Preliminary Assessment of Vosoritide for Short Stature in Turner syndrome: 6-month data from a Clinical Trial, Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, Niusha Shafaei, Anqing Zhang, Kim Boucher, Niti Dham, Andrew Dauber

European Society of Human Genetics

May 24-27, 2025, Milan, Italy

Invited Symposium Speaker

• Novel Therapies for Growth Disorders: What Can We Expect from Personalised Medicine, Andrew Dauber

American Diabetes Association

June 20-23, 2025, Chicago, IL

Oral Presentations

• Primary Metabolic Outcomes from a Pilot CGM-Behavioral Intervention Among Racially Minoritized Youth with T1D (link), Emma Straton, Christine Wang, Amanda Perkins, Letitia Gallant, John Barber, Shideh Majidi, Maureen Monaghan, Randi Streisand
• Variants Modulate Metformin-Liraglutide Pharmacokinetics and Glycemia in African American Youth Onset Type 2 Diabetes - The MIGHTY Study (link), … Stephanie Chung

Poster Presentations

• Correlates of Device Use as Young Adults (YA) with Type 1 Diabetes leave Pediatric Care. (link), … Randi Streisand …
• Short-term Reproducibility of I3C Risk Score in Predicting Cardiac Events in Young People, … Stephanie Chung
• Evaluating Time to Technology Initiation among Newly Diagnosed Youth with T1D (link), Jody Grundman, … Rachel Longendyke, Chaitanya Sambangi, Amanda Perkins, Randi Streisand, Shideh Majidi
• Incidence and Remission Rates of Youth-onset Type 2 Diabetes (Y-T2D) after Virtual Learning (VL) During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jody Grundman, Rachel Longendyke, Elizabeth Estrada, Stephanie Chung
• Assessing Caregivers' Knowledge and Opinions on T1D Antibody Screening and Teplizumab Infusions (link), Rachel Longendyke, Jody Grundman, … Sarah Holly, Randi Streisand, Shideh Majidi
• Medical And Demographic Correlates of Session Attendance Among Historically Minoritized Youth with T1D in A CGM Behavioral Intervention (link), Amanda Perkins, Emma Straton, Christine Wang, John Barber, Letitia Gallant, Shideh Majidi, Randi Streisand
• Social Determinants of Health Barriers in Newly Diagnosed Pediatric T1D and T2D (link), Jasmine Roberts, Sarah Holly, Roxanna Velasquez, Lauren Deanna, Diamond Patrick, Shideh Majidi
• Social Determinants of Health Barriers-Differences between Public vs Private Insurance. (link), Jasmine Roberts, Sarah Holly, Roxanna Velasquez, Lauren Deanna, Diamond Patrick, Shideh Majidi
• Implementation of Depression Screening in Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Patients (link), Jasmine Roberts, Sarah Holly, Lauren DeAnna, Diamond Patrick, Shideh Majidi

Latin American Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (SLEP) Annual Meeting

August 6-9, 2025, Panama City, Panama

Invited Symposium Speaker

• Novel Therapies for Growth Disorders, Andrew Dauber
• Clinical Predictors of Response to Growth Hormone in Idiopathic Short Stature, Andrew Dauber
• A Pediatric Endocrinologist's Guide to the Genetics of Growth, Andrew Dauber
• Defects in PAPP-A2 Function: From Bedside to Bench and Back Again, Andrew Dauber

The 6^th Pediatric Update Conference

September 25-26, 2025, Cairo, Egypt (delivered virtually)

Invited Symposium Speaker

Universidad San Francisco de Quito 4^th biennial meeting

October 22-23, 2025, Quito, Ecuador

Invited Symposium Speaker

IPSAD: International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes

November 5-8, 2025, Montreal, Canada

Posters without oral presentation

• A New Model for Complex Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Management: Feasibility of the Blossom Clinic Approach, Jody Grundman, Mai Tran, Lauren Clary, Lauren DeAnna, Roxanna Velasquez, Amanda Perkins
• Characteristics of a Diabetes Access Clinic for Uninsured Pediatric Patients, Rachel Longendyke, Shideh Majidi, Jody Grundman, Roxanna Velasquez, Heather Gordish-Dressman, Alexis Richardson, Kimberly Ho, Lauren DeAnna, … Fran Cogen
• Primary Outcomes from a Pilot CGM-behavioral Intervention Among Youth with T1D, Emma Straton, Amanda Perkins, Letitia Gallant, John Barber, Shideh Majidi, Maureen Monaghan, Randi Streisand
• Assessing the Impact of Training and Mentorship in Liberia at Life for a Child (LFAC)-supported Clinics Transitioning Patients to Glargine Insulin, Amanda Perkin s…
• Insulin Pump Use in Hispanic Youth, Chaitanya Sambangi, Sarah Holly, Jody Grundman, Shideh Majidi

Posters with oral presentation

• Unequal Access Unequal Outcomes: Time to Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) Initiation in Youth with T1D, Jody Grundman, Mai Tran, Rachel Longendyke, Amanda Perkins, Randi Streisand, Shideh Majidi
• Caregivers' Opinions on Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Autoantibody Screening and Delay with Teplizumab, Rachel Longendyke, Jody Grundman, … Sarah Holly, Randi Streisand, Shideh Majidi
• Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Demographic Disparities in Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) Presentation at Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Diagnosis, Sarah Holly, Jasmine Roberts, Jody Grundman, Rachel Longendyke, Shideh Majidi
• A Medically Supportive Food Delivery Intervention for Children with Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity: Six Month Follow-up Results, Jasmine Roberts,… Shideh Majidi

Poster Presentation

Oral Presentation

• Blossoming Outcomes: A Multidisciplinary Model for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Sub-optimal Glycemic Control, Jody Grundman, … Lauren Clary, Lauren Deanna, Amanda Perkins
• Implementing an Early Screening Workflow for Stage 1 and Stage 2 Type 1 Diabetes in a Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic, Sarah Holly, Fran Cogen, Jody Grundman, Letitia Gallant, Shideh Majidi

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Panel Speaker