Dr. Joseph I Wolfsdorf MB, BCH
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
333 Longwood Ave Floor 6 Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Joseph Wolfsdorf is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Wolfsdorf specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
Univ Of The Witwatersrand- Med Sch- Johannesburg- So Africa 1969
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of continuous glucose therapy begun in infancy on the long-term clinical course of patients with type I glycogen storage disease.
- Improving diabetes control in adolescents.
- Urinary lactate excretion to monitor the efficacy of treatment of type I glycogen storage disease.
- Decreased urinary citrate excretion in type 1a glycogen storage disease.
- Glycogen synthase deficiency (glycogen storage disease type 0) presenting with hyperglycemia and glucosuria: report of three new mutations.
- Bones benefit from better biochemical control in type 1 glycogen storage disease.
- Effect of continuous glucose therapy with uncooked cornstarch on the long-term clinical course of type 1a glycogen storage disease.
- Glycogen storage diseases.
- ESPE/LWPES consensus statement on diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents.
- European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology/Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society consensus statement on diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents.
- Oral sucrose and exercise tolerance in McArdle's disease.
- Sexual development in a 21 month-old boy caused by testosterone contamination of
- Diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis in children.
- Effect of low-dose insulin treatment on body weight and physical development in children and adolescents at risk for type 1 diabetes.
Awards
- 1993 Ldren With Diabetes, .
- 1991 Listed In The Best Doctors In America, .
- 1994 Ibution To The Cause Of Diabetes, .
- 2010 Children's Hospital Boston Chair in Endocrinology
Fellowships
- University of Chicago Hospitals - Chicago, IL 1976
- University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, Fellow:Pediatric Endocrinology 1975
- Tufts Medical Center, Fellow:Pediatric Endocrinology 1976
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