Diabetes and Endocrinology
For Healthcare Professionals - Diabetes and Endocrinology
The UMMC Midtown Campus Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology staff
Specialized Services
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Comprehensive management of diabetes and its complications using a multidisciplinary team approach
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Diagnosis and treatment of hormonal disorders, including hypo- and hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules and cancer, osteoporosis and other bone disorders
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Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis
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Coordination with Nuclear Medicine, Neurosurgery, Transplant Surgery and Endocrine Surgery for specialized diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for hormonal disorders
Services to Physicians
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Educational programs (CME)
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Consultation for diabetes education and dietary management
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Consultation on complicated cases of diabetes and other endocrine diseases
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Second opinions
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Evaluation of patient conditions
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Special diagnostic (provocative testing of hormone axes; ultrasound-guided thyroid aspirations, bone densitometry)
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Evaluation for endocrine surgery and/or radiation and gamma knife therapy, and dosimetry and radioiodine therapy
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Short-term and long-term patient management
Research
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Genetic screening for monogenic forms of diabetes
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New understandings for the genetic basis of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, and the development of new therapeutic and prevention strategies
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Preclinical gene therapy approaches for diabetes
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Studies to determine why some people respond to certain diabetes drugs while others do not (pharmacogenomics)
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Clinical trials of new therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes and obesity
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Genetics of hypertension and lipid disorders
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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.
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Identification of genes contributing to developmental defects in organ systems – such as pancreas and hypothalamus - that might underlie obesity and diabetes
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Studies of drugs to treat Cushings Disease
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Genetics of osteoporosis
Past Conference Presentations:
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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