SAHM News
SAHM members – clinicians, researchers, educators, and advocates – are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. SAHM will be monitoring and sharing guidance and resources as this pandemic evolves. We hope that these resources for clinicians, researchers and patients/families, as well as information about self-care, are helpful.
The SAHM Adolescent Medicine Resident Curriculum (updated in March 2020) is designed both for four-week adolescent medicine rotations and for residents’ longitudinal training.
We know that teens and their families are anxious about the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, especially given the media attention to this issue. During this time, it is important for teens and families to get information from reliable resources.
Due to the extraordinary times we live in, SAHM President Dr. Jessica Kahn made the 2020 Presidential Address from Cincinnati, rather than in San Diego, as originally planned. Watch her inspiring talk about the important work SAHM members do with adolescents in this is engaging video presentation.
SAHM issues statement in opposition of bills being introduced in U.S. state legislatures that would make providing pubertal blockers or cross-sex hormones for transgender and gender-diverse patients younger than 18 years-old a felony or misdemeanor for physicians and other health care providers.
Published in JAH and JPAG, SAHM and NASPAG have issued a statement warning of the dangers of CPCs, which frequently advertise themselves in misleading ways and often provide unproven or inadequate services.