Fellowship Training Program
in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Program Director: Ruth S. Weinstock, M.D., Ph.D.
Accreditation length: 2 years
Size: 3
Contact:

Michelle Haight, Senior Administrative Assistant
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
750 East Adams St., CWB 353
Syracuse, NY, 13210
Phone: 315-464-5740
FAX : 315-464-5718

We tailor the program of each Fellow to his or her specific interests and requirements, while fulfilling the requirements of the Subspecialty Board of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism.

Trainees gain clinical experience in the evaluation and management of:

thyroid diseases
diabetes
lipid disorders
adrenal diseases
pituitary tumors
derangements of calcium metabolism
mineralocorticoid and electrolyte disorders
metabolic bone disease
reproductive endocrine disorders

Clinics

The Endocrinology and Diabetes Clinics at the V.A. Medical Center, and the ambulatory Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism facilities at SUNY Upstate Medical University offer comprehensive services in Endocrinology, including:

Upstate Thyroid Center — with Nuclear Medicine, Pathology and Surgery
Pituitary Center — with Neurosurgery, Radiology and Pathology
Metabolic Bone Disease Center — with Nuclear Medicine, Nutrition, Radiology and Pathology

Inpatient consultations are performed at University Hospital, the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Crouse Hospital.

The Joslin Diabetes Center at SUNY Upstate Medical University is a complete resource for diabetes care, education and research. This program provides patients of all ages with the most advanced methods of diabetes management. Patients and physicians benefit from the latest advances in diabetes research, treatment, and state-of-the-art diabetes education. Comprehensive services are provided on an outpatient and inpatient basis.

There are board-certified adult and pediatric endocrinologists. Educational services by the nurse educators, dietitians, psychologists and exercise physiologist include one-on-one assessment and counseling and small special topic seminars and group classes. There is a large insulin pump program and telemedicine program.

Teaching Sessions

Teaching sessions include a weekly Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Case Conference when the clinical problems presented by several patients are discussed in depth with literature review, a biweekly Metabolic Bone Disease Conference, a monthly Thyroid Conference, and a monthly Pituitary Conference. In addition to the discussion of clinical research problems at the above sessions, there is an endocrine study group, comprising faculty members and fellows from the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Surgery, OB/GYN and Pathology who have primary interests in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. This group participates in a joint Journal Club, sponsors visiting speakers and research and patient care-related conferences, and promotes interdepartmental research collaborations.

Facilities

Excellent facilities are available for clinical research in the Clinical Research Unit. The endocrine research labs are furnished to perform studies of a wide variety, including molecular biology studies, hormone assays and other biochemical measurements and isotopic determinations. Excellent animal quarters are close at hand in the floor immediately above the endocrine research lab.

We expect all Fellows to engage in research. Each Fellow is encouraged to undertake primary responsibility for a single research project which is of interest to him/her, and to participate in clinical projects of the group as a whole, in order to increase the range of research methods to which he/she is exposed. Projects may be predominantly laboratory or clinical investigations. Research opportunities are also available in collaboration with members of other clinical and basic science departments.

For more information regarding our Fellowship Training Program, please contact:

Michelle Haight
Senior Administrative Assistant
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
750 East Adams St., CWB 353
Syracuse, NY, 13210
Phone: 315-464-5740
FAX : 315-464-5718

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