Endocrinology/Diabetes Fellowship

Residency: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Medical School: Cairo University Faculty of Medicine

Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Our fellows play an integral role in educating the residents and medical students rotating through our division.

Our faculty members are involved in a number of clinical, translational and research projects. Each fellow develops and completes a research project with the help of a faculty mentor or mentors. Past and current fellow projects include:

• the effects of methylphenidate on energy intake in obese teenagers
• associations between serum sphingolipids and adipocytokines with insulin resistance in obese adolescents
• comparison of fasting lipid profiles in preschoolers with and without diabetes and the effects of nutritional counseling on lipid panels
• effects of enhanced nutritional counseling on BMI percentile in children newly diagnosed with T1DM
• mechanisms by which sphinogosine-1-phosphate regulates hormone sensitive lipase in adipocytes derived from 3T3-L1 cells
• the effects of treatment of vitamin D deficiency/ insufficiency on insulin resistance in obese children and adolescents
• oral health in adolescents with obesity, with and without Type 2 diabetes and salivary inflammatory markers of obesity
• effects of intranasal insulin on desire to eat in healthy men
• incidence of hematuria after growth hormone stimulation testing
• testosterone concentrations in young pubertal and postpubertal obese males

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Our current fellows evaluate and treat patients with:

• neonatal diabetes
• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• monogenic diabetes
• hyperinsulinism
• insulin resistance
• polycystic ovarian syndrome
• obesity
• adrenal insufficiency
• hypo- and hyperthyroidism
  
• pituitary dysfunction
• short and tall stature
• precocious puberty
• delayed puberty
• disorders of calcium and vitamin D metabolism
• disorders or sexual differentiation
• androgen insensitivity and other rare endocrine conditions and syndromes

Our well-established fellowship training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

For a general description of pediatric endocrinology please see the CoPS (Council of Pediatric Subspecialists) website.

For further information about Pediatric Endocrinology please see the Pediatric Endocrine Society website.

The postdoctoral education prerequisite is three years of general pediatric residency training in an ACGME-certified program. Candidates should apply through ERAS and enter the Pediatric Endocrinology Match through NRMP.

In your personal statement please tell us about yourself, your interest in endocrinology, long-term plans and specific fellowship training goals. Applicants must provide letters of recommendation from their chair of pediatrics and two other faculty members (preferably at least one endocrinologist) with whom you have worked during the past two years. Candidates are required to visit Buffalo for personal interviews with members of the faculty and to meet with current fellows.

Selection criteria will include an excellent residency performance record and goals consistent with those of our Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program.

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