The clinical services include inpatient attending and consulting services, as well as a large outpatient clinic which serves patients with a wide variety of endocrinologic disorders. The Diabetes Center treats a considerable number of patients with type I diabetes, type II diabetes, and pregnant patients with diabetes. Physicians, diabetes educators, dieticians and a podiatrist offer a multidisciplinary approach to the care of these patients. Educational activities include frequent bedside rounds, case presentations, formal lectures, teaching conferences, journal club, and endocrine, diabetes, and lipid clinics. The fellowship training program offers two years of training in endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes, and prepares physicians for Endocrine Board eligibility.
Elective training is provided in pediatric endocrinology and fertility-sterility.
The program is designed to train fellows in both clinical and academic endocrinology. The division actively cooperates with other clinical and basic disciplines within the medical center, including the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Endocrine Fertility and Sterility Program, the Lipid Research facilities, the Department of Urology, the Department of Physiology and the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology. He is also Chief of Endocrinology at the VA Medicial Center. His areas of research include studies of calciotropic hormones, studies of polypeptide hormones of the normal diffuse neuroendocrine system as well as those produced by cancer, and investigations on the role of the lung as an endocrine organ, and the endocrinology of sepsis.