Dr. Paul B Kaplowitz MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
111 Michigan Ave NW Washington DC, 20010About
Paul B. Kaplowitz, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology at Children's National Health System, has practiced pediatric endocrinology since 1982 and has published more than 55 papers, particu ...
Education and Training
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Third-year medical student survey of office preceptorships during the pediatric
- If gonadotropin-releasing hormone plus growth hormone (GH) really improves growth outcomes in short non-GH-deficient children, then what?
- Earlier onset of puberty in girls: relation to increased body mass index and race.
- Navigating the recent articles on girls' puberty in Pediatrics: what do we know and where do we go from here?
- Update of newborn screening and therapy for congenital hypothyroidism.
- Link between body fat and the timing of puberty.
- Treatment of central precocious puberty.
- Monozygotic twins discordant for Ullrich-Turner syndrome.
- Delayed puberty.
- Subclinical hypothyroidism in children: normal variation or sign of a failing thyroid gland?
- Evaluation and follow-up of clinically euthyroid children with normal free T4 and suppressed TSH.
- Patient age, race and the type of diabetes have an impact on the presenting symptoms, latency before diagnosis and laboratory abnormalities at time of diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in children.
- Ovarian hilus cell hyperplasia as the cause of virilization in 45,X Turner's syndrome.
- Case report: rapid spontaneous recovery from severe hypothyroidism in 2 teenage girls.
- Characteristics of children with type 1 diabetes and persistent suboptimal glycemic control.
Awards
- 2004 selected one of the Best Doctors in America
Treatments
- Short Stature, Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism And More
- Birth Defects
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Graves' Disease
Professional Memberships
- Member Center for Translational Science
Fellowships
- Pediatric Endocrinology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA 1982
- Pediatric Endocrinology, University of North Carolina Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 1979
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