Kashif M. Munir, MD

Kashif Munir, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition. He joined the University of Maryland faculty in 2011, and has extensive clinical experience in treating complex diabetes patients, thyroid disorders, and pituitary diseases.

He helped establish a multidisciplinary pituitary practice at the Center and currently sees patients for diabetes, thyroid disease, pituitary and adrenal disorders. Dr. Munir also has active research protocols for pituitary and thyroid diseases, and works with Dr. Michael Quon in studying the effects of food polyphenols on insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction.

Dr. Munir is very interested in:

• Diabetes and specifically insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring
• Thyroid disorders, specifically thyroid dysfunction, thyroid cancer, thyroid biopsies
• Pituitary and Adrenal diseases, specifically endocrine hypertension