Chief, Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes & Metabolism
Nemours Children’s Health System
& Professor of Pediatrics
Mayo College of Medicine
Jacksonville (FL), USA
Nelly Mauras, MD, is Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, at Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She is Professor of Pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, affiliated with Nemours. Dr Mauras is a clinical research scientist focused on the interactions of hormones and nutrients in children and adolescents, particularly in type 1 diabetes, disorders of growth, estrogen action and Turner syndrome. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers to date and has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally. She has a keen interest in the use of aromatase inhibitors to promote growth and in the impact of the route of estrogen delivery on estrogen action in hypogonadal girls. Dr Mauras is principal investigator for the Diabetes Research in Children Network, an NIH-funded consortium investigating the effect of type 1 diabetes on the brain in children. Dr Mauras was co-chair for the growth and puberty sections of the international coalition that drafted and published the last Consensus Guidelines for the care of patients with Turner syndrome. She is Director of Research for the Nemours Children’s Health System in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr Mauras remains an active clinician and teacher of pediatric house staff and pediatric and adult endocrine fellows.