Dr. Merri Lou Pendergrass MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
5323 HARRY HINES BLVD. DALLAS, TX, 75390Rating
4/5
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Dr. Merri Pendergrass, MD is one of the country's most highly rated doctors, specializing in endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism and internal medicine. MD Pendergrass currently practices medicine at ...
Education and Training
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Quality of care for diabetic patients in a large urban public hospital.
- Identification of patients with diabetes from the text of physician notes in the electronic medical record.
- Inpatient management of diabetes and hyperglycemia among general medicine patients at a large teaching hospital.
- Relationship of physician volume with process measures and outcomes in diabetes.
- Treatment intensification and blood glucose control among hospitalized diabetic patients.
- Effect of board certification on antihypertensive treatment intensification in patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Effects of a subcutaneous insulin protocol, clinical education, and computerized order set on the quality of inpatient management of hyperglycemia: results of a clinical trial.
- A potential living kidney donor with prediabetes.
- Hypoglycemia and clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes hospitalized in the general ward.
- Evaluation of compliance with a paper-based, multiplication-factor, intravenous insulin protocol.
- Effects of a computerized order set on the inpatient management of hyperglycemia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
- Long-acting subcutaneously administered insulin for glycemic control immediately after cardiac surgery.
- A student-implemented elective to improve medical student confidence in providing diabetes self-management support.
- Impact of supplemental training programs on improving medical students' confidence in providing diabetes self-management education and support.
- Body temperature and autogrooming in the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus.
Awards
- PhD, Biopsychology, 1985 University of Texas at Austin
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
Fellowships
- University of Texas Health Sciences Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 1995
- (Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (Internal Medicine)), UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, SAN ANTONIO, TX 1992
- University of Texas Health Sciences 1995
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