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DIVISION OF ENDOCRINOLOGY |
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RESEARCH AND FACULTY |
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Theodore Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. - Division Chief
Email: tefriedm@cdrewu.edu
M.D., Ph.D.: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Residency: University of Michigan
Fellowship: NIH
Clinical Interests:
- Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
- Adrenal Diseases
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Research Interests:
- Prohormone processing as related to drug addiction
- Diabetes and thyroid disease
- Metabolism
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Jorge Artaza, Ph.D.
Email: jorgeartaza@cdrewu.edu
MSc., Ph.D.: University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
Visiting Scientist: UCLA/ Tissue typing laboratory
Fellowship: Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis /Charles Drew University, Los Angeles.
Research Interests:
- Role of Myostatin and Androgens in the maintenance of skeletal muscle mass and on Myogenic Differentiation.
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Olga M. Calof, MD
E mail: ocalof@med,cdrewu.edu
M.D.: St. George's University School of Medicine
Residency: San Joaquin General Hospital, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: King/Drew - Endocrinology
Clinical Interests:
Research Interests:
- Reproductive Endocrinology
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Mayer B. Davidson, M.D.
Email: madavids@cdrewu.edu
M.D.: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Bellevue / Univ.of Washington
Fellowship: University of Washington
Clinical Interest:
Research Interests:
- Quality of Diabetes Care
- Insulin Resistance
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Diana Echeverry, M.D.
-Internal Medicine Residency Associate Program Director
Email: diecheve@cdrewu.edu
M.D.: Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, WI
Residency: King/Drew Med Ctr- Internal Medicine
Fellowship: King/Drew - Endocrinology
Clinical interests:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Thyroid disorders
- Thyroid cancer
Research interests:
- Psychosocial factors affecting diabetes care
- Insulin resistance
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Charles Ellis Fisher, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Email: cfisher@ucla.edu
M.D.: University of Southern California
Residency: Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Southern California
Interests:
- Endocrine Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus
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Nestor Gonzalez-Cadavid, Ph.D.
Email: ncadavid@ucla.edu
Ph.D.: University of Buenos Aires, University of London
Fellowships: National Council of Scientific Research, (Argentina).University of London,
Research Interests:
- Molecular and cell biology of:
- modulation of skeletal mass by myostatin and steroid hormones;
- gene therapy of erectile dysfunction with nitric oxide synthase cDNA constructs;
- role of nitric oxide and myofibroblasts in urogenital fibrosis
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Stan Hsia, M.D., FRCPC - Fellowship Program Director
Email: sthsia@telemed.cdrewu.edu
M.D.: University of Toronto
Residency: Queens University Canada
Fellowship: Univ. of Toronto/UCSD
Research Interests:
- Pathophysiology of Insulin Resistance
- Lipoproteins
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Martin L. Lee
Email: martin.l.lee@att.net
B.A, M.S., Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles
Chartered Statistician: Royal Statisticial Society
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics: UCLA
Research Interests:
- Immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases
- Pharmacokinetics of biological molecules
- Therapeutics for hemophilia
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Behrouz Salehian, M.D.
Email: besalehi@cdrewu.edu
M.D/Residency.: Tehran University
Fellowship: Harbor-UCLA
Clinical Interests:
- Hypogonadism
- Obesity
- HIV Endocrinopathies
Research Interests:
- HIV-Metabolism
- Obesity
- Hypogonadism
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Atam Bir Singh MD,MRCPI
Email: atamshakti@aol.com
MD/Residency: Medical College of Ohio at Toledo
Fellowship: Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science Research
Interest:
- Androgen deficiency in aging
- HIV infection
- Erectile dysfunction
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Sample Research Articles |
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- Friedman, T.C. and Norris, K.C. (2002) The Role of Vitamin D Hormone in Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 13:189-194. (Reprinted from Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 13, Friedman, T.C. and Norris, K.C., Pages 189-194, Copyright 2002, with Permission from Elsevier Science. Single copies of this article can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal research or study.)
- Padero, C., Bhasin, S. Friedman, T.C. (2002) Androgen Supplementation in Older Women: Too Much Hype, Not Enough Data J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. 50:1131-1140. (Reprinted from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society with Permission from Blackwell Publishing. Any use of the material other than for personal research is subject to permission from Blackwell Publishing.)
- Yanjun Liu, Yuichi Nakagawa, Ying Wang, Renshan Li, Xiaojun Li, Takehiko Ohzeki, and Theodore C. Friedman (2003) Leptin Activation of Corticosterone Production in Hepatocytes May Contribute to the Reversal of Obesity and Hyperglycemia in Leptin-Deficient ob/ob Mice Diabetes 29:1409-1416. (Copyright (c) 2003 American Diabetes Association. Reprinted with permission from The American Diabetes Association.)
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