Dr. Ximena Lopez MD Dallas, TX with 11-20 years experience
Gender: Female Years In Practice: 11-20 Phone Number:(214) 456-5959
Specialty
Pediatric Endocrinology
General Pediatric Endocrinology
Contact
1935 Medical District Dr
Dallas, TX 75235 Phone:(214) 456-5959
Affiliated Hospitals
Children's Medical Center Dallas Dallas, TX Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Dallas, TX UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX
Dr. Ximena Lopez's Videos
Dr. Ximena Lopez Receives 2018 Upstander Award at Time to Thrive in Orlando
Born to Mexican parents in El Paso, Texas, Ximena Lopez grew up in Spain for most of her childhood. She moved to Mexico as an adolescent where she completed medical school and then to the United States to continue medical training. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by the fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusettes. In 2010, Ximena moved to Dallas, Texas, where she works as a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Health, and as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She started caring for transgender youth in 2012, and in 2014 she founded and became the Medical Director of the GENder, Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support Program (GENECIS). This interdisciplinary program provides comprehensive mental and medical health care to transgender and gender non-conforming youth. GENECIS is the first and largest program of its kind in the Southwest with almost 600 patients to date. The clinic provides education to the medical and nonmedical community on the rights and needs of transgender youth. 18#TimeToTHRIVE Ximena’s passion is to improve the lives and the medical care of transgender youth. She is the co-chair of the Transgender Health Special Interest Group from the Pediatric Endocrine Society of North America, Executive Committee member of the Section of Endocrinology of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an advisory member for the Young Gender Clinic Committee at the Human Rights Campaign. She is also the principal investigator for a study that focuses on the long-term outcomes on the mental and physical health of transgender adolescents that receive puberty suppression and cross-sex hormones before adulthood.