Ieuan Hughes

Ieuan Arwel Hughes (born 9 November 1944) is a British paediatric endocrinologist who is an emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge. Hughes is most notable for long-standing research into disorders of sex development (DSD), established one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of cases of DSD including publishing the Consensus on DSD management framework which, barely eight years after its publication, is now already accepted worldwide as the framework for care of patients and families with DSD.

Societies Hughes was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. Hughes was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.

Awards and honours In 2014 he was awarded the James Spence Medal, the highest honour given by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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