For Healthcare Professionals - Diabetes and Endocrinology

The UMMC Midtown Campus Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology staff

Specialized Services

• Comprehensive management of diabetes and its complications using a multidisciplinary team approach

• Diagnosis and treatment of hormonal disorders, including hypo- and hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules and cancer, osteoporosis and other bone disorders 

•  Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis 

• Coordination with Nuclear Medicine, Neurosurgery, Transplant Surgery and Endocrine Surgery for specialized diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for hormonal disorders 

Services to Physicians

• Educational programs (CME)

• Consultation for diabetes education and dietary management

• Consultation on complicated cases of diabetes and other endocrine diseases

• Second opinions

• Evaluation of patient conditions

• Special diagnostic (provocative testing of hormone axes; ultrasound-guided thyroid aspirations, bone densitometry)

• Evaluation for endocrine surgery and/or radiation and gamma knife therapy, and dosimetry and radioiodine therapy

• Short-term and long-term patient management

Research

• Genetic screening for monogenic forms of diabetes

• New understandings for the genetic basis of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, and the development of new therapeutic and prevention strategies

• Preclinical gene therapy approaches for diabetes

• Studies to determine why some people respond to certain diabetes drugs while others do not (pharmacogenomics)

• Clinical trials of new therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes and obesity

• Genetics of hypertension and lipid disorders

• Molecular and cellular studies of the regulation of lipid metabolism, lipid storage and utilization and the effects to human diseases, such as obesity and diabetes.

• Identification of genes contributing to developmental defects in organ systems – such as pancreas and hypothalamus - that might underlie obesity and diabetes

• Studies of drugs to treat Cushings Disease

• Genetics of osteoporosis 

Past Conference Presentations:

• Genetics of Diabetes: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?
  Toni Pollin, MS, PhD

• Medical Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes
  Rana Malek, MD

• Managing the Medicine of Choice: Physical Activity and Diabetes
  Virginia Mirenzi, MS, RD, LDN, HFS, CDE

• Bariatric Surgery and Implications for Diabetes
  Mark Kligman, MD

• Bariatric Surgery and Implications for Diabetes
  Mary Beth Sodus, RD, LD, ACE-CPT

• What the Adolescent Patient Could Teach You About Diabetes Technology
  Susan Hunter-Schulze, MS, RD, LDN, CDE