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Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD

Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Eminent Physician

Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine

Vin Tangpricha is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Tangpricha received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center. He completed his PhD in molecular medicine on the topic of vitamin D at Boston University School of Medicine. He serves on the Endocrine Society guidelines committee for the hormone treatment of gender-non-conforming and gender incongruent patients, which has published two international guidelines on transgender patients (2009 and revised in 2017). He served on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines for the Standards of Care (SOC) for Transgender people as the endocrine section chair. He is the immediate past-president of WPATH. He has received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and NIH. He has published over 250 peer reviewed manuscripts on transgender medicine, vitamin D, and cystic fibrosis.