Dr. Charles Eil, MD

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Get to know Internist and Endocrinologist, Dr. Charles Eil, who serves patients in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Dr. Eil is a board-certified endocrinologist practicing through Southcoast Physicians Group Endocrinology in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is also affiliated with Southcoast Health and Truesdale Health in Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Eil is licensed to practice in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 

Dr. Eil received his medical degree in 1974 University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He then completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (1974 – 1976), followed by a fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a visiting fellowship in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to medical school, Dr. Eil received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Distinction in Chemistry and Honors in Philosophy at the University of Rochester (1968), as well as a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Chicago (1972).

Dr. Eil is board certified in internal medicine, as well as the subspecialty of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, with the American Board of Internal Medicine. The American Board of Internal Medicine is a 501 nonprofit, self-appointed physician-evaluation organization that certifies physicians practicing internal medicine and its subspecialties.

Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.

President of the Diabetes and Endocrine Society of Rhode Island, Dr. Eil is also a retired Captain in the US Naval Reserve. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, as well as a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Endocrine Society. Dr. Eil is also the recipient of the 1985 Peter Forsham Award of the Society of Uniformed Endocrinologists. He remains an active author, presenter, and lecturer.

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