Ieuan Hughes Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Professor
Ieuan Hughes
Office:	Professor of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge
Term Start:	1989
Term End:	2011
Birth Name:	Ieuan Arwel Hughes
Birth Date:	9 November 1944

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.

Career

Hughes was a professor of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, and the head of the School of Clinical Medicine's Department of Paediatrics for 23 years before retiring as an emeritus professor. Throughout his career in paediatric endocrinology, he specialised in disorders of sex development (DSD); he created a comprehensive database of DSD cases and established international consensus-based guidelines for the management of these cases. He also founded and chaired the Clinical Committee of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and published over 230 original journal articles.^[1]

Societies

• Hughes was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.^[2]
• Hughes was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.^[3]

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.^[4]

Selected bibliography

• 10.1055/s-0035-1545274. 0018-5043. 47. 5. 394–400. Hughes. I.. Consequences of the Chicago DSD Consensus: A Personal Perspective. Hormone and Metabolic Research. March 2015. 25750076.
• 10.1016/j.jpurol.2010.04.005. 1477-5131. 6. 5. 447–448. Hughes. Ieuan. How should we classify intersex disorders?. Journal of Pediatric Urology. October 2010. 20605745.
• 10.1136/adc.2009.163840. 0003-9888. 95. 8. 618–623. Pasterski. V.. Prentice. P.. Hughes. I. A.. Consequences of the Chicago consensus on disorders of sex development (DSD): current practices in Europe. Archives of Disease in Childhood. August 2010. 19773218. 11566917.
• 10.1016/j.beem.2009.11.004. 1521-690X. 24. 2. 187–195. Pasterski. V.. Prentice. P.. Hughes. I.A.. Impact of the consensus statement and the new DSD classification system. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. April 2010. 20541147.
• 10.1016/j.beem.2007.11.001. 1521-690X. 22. 1. 119–134. Hughes. Ieuan A.. Disorders of sex development: a new definition and classification. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. February 2008. 18279784.
• 10.1136/adc.2006.098319. 16624884. 0003-9888. 91. 7. 554–563. Hughes. I A. Houk. C. Ahmed. S F. Lee. P A. LWPES/ESPE Consensus Group. Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders. Archives of Disease in Childhood. April 2006 . 2082839.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emeritus Professor Ieuan Hughes. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 28 February 2017. 14 May 2017.
2. Web site: Professor Ieuan Hughes FMedSci FLSW. Academy of Medical Sciences. 14 May 2017. 1 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801034525/http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-ieuan-hughes/. dead.
3. Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . Ieuan Hughes . 2023-08-30 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.
4. Web site: Professor Ieuan Hughes awarded James Spence 2014 Medal. School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. 13 January 2014. 14 May 2017.