Turner Syndrome Clinic
What is the Turner Clinic?
The Turner Syndrome (TS) Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital is a multi-specialty clinic for children, adolescents and young adults with Turner Syndrome. We have a separate clinic specific for adult patients with Turner syndrome.
Turner syndrome clinic started summer 2000. The clinic's goals and objectives are to:
- Provide comprehensive medical care and health supervision for TS patients
- Offer an integrated approach to the treatment of TS associated disorders through a multi-specialty team
- Provide anticipatory guidance and management of learning disorders in TS patients
- Promote communication between families of TS patients and schools
- Provide education for families and health care personnel
- Provide prenatal counseling
- Provide referral of other specialties such as Otolaryngology, Cardiology, Developmental disorders and Human Genetics
What other health care providers will my child see?
Our Turner clinic for girls' age birth thru 17 years is staffed by:
- Dr. Philippe Backeljauw, pediatric endocrinologist
- Lori Casnellie, RN-clinic coordinator
- Developmental pediatricians and fellows
- Sarah Gamm, social worker
- Ann Marie Doughtery, dietitian
- William Gottliebson, MD, cardiology clinic
- Renee Rodriguez, MD, developmental pediatrics
Our Adult Turner clinic is for young women 18 and older and is staffed by:
Additional Resources:
If I have questions about this clinic, whom should I contact?
To schedule an appointment, call 513-636-4744 opt 1.
If you have further questions, call or email Lori Casnellie, RN at 513-636-0226 or lori.casnellie@cchmc.org
