August 11, 2022

National XLH Day

Vanderbilt recently hosted the National XLH (X-linked hypophosphatemia) Day, and more than 200 patients and families attended.

Vanderbilt recently hosted the National XLH (X-linked hypophosphatemia) Day in the Student Life Center.  More than 200 patients and families attended from around the country. Speakers included Vanderbilt’s Jill Simmons, MD, Kathryn Dahir, MD, and Margaret Maclin, DMD.

Pictured here are Dahir, left, Elizabeth Olear (XLH senior cinical research associate from Yale University as well as XLH Network board member), Simmons, Maclin, patient Brier Whitley and Marian Hart (XLH clinical research manager at Indiana University). The group is showing their bracelets that Whitley brought them.