Clinical Services The clinical service of the Pediatric Endocrinology Division offers expertise in all areas of Pediatric Endocrinology including disorders of growth, puberty, sex differentiation, glucose metabolism, bone and mineral metabolism, the pituitary/hypothalamus, the thyroid, the adrenal, and the gonads. Patients managed by members of the Division are afforded access to the extensive clinical resources and specialty services of the Department of Pediatrics as well as the entire Rambam medical community. Faculty in the Division have wide-ranging clinical experience and expertise. Clinicians care for patients with a variety of endocrine disorders, and place special emphasis on understanding how the patient and the family are affected by these problems. The resources of Rambam allow for comprehensive evaluation and management of complex hormonal problems. Members of the faculty have played leadership roles in investigator-initiated clinical research and clinical drug trials since establishment of the Division as an academic unit decades ago. Current clinical research programs focus on growth disorders, bone and mineral metabolism, water metabolism, puberty, thyroid and adrenal disorders.

Current Clinical Research

Growth:
Evolutionary perspective in child growth

Modeling child life history growth

Metabolic Bone Disease:
Vitamin D metabolism
Pediatric vitamin D supplementation
Vitamin D receptor effects

Adrenal:
17 hydroxylase deficiency

Steroid metabolomics


Obesity:
Metabolomics of obesity                                                                  Cortisol metabolism in the obese
Mechanisms of hypothalamic obesity

Turner syndrome:
Early estrogen replacement therapy
Optimization of HRT                                                                                Androgen replacement therapy in TS

Water metabolism:
Aquaporin 2 deficiency

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