Didáctica y congresos

Didactic lectures:

  • Endocrine Boot Camp (summer/fall of Year 1)
  • Weekly lectures throughout remainder of the year by endocrine faculty and select invited speakers from other departments

Conferences & Journal Clubs:

  • Endocrine Grand Rounds (weekly) – (list is below)
  • Diabetes Center Research Seminar (weekly) – (list is below)
  • Thyroid Cancer Tumor Board (monthly)
  • Thyroid cytology and pathology conferences (every 2-3 months)
  • Neuroendocrine and Adrenal Tumor Board (every 2 weeks)
  • Pituitary Tumor Board (every 2-3 months)
  • Diabetes Journal Club (weekly)

External Conferences:

All fellows attend AACE Endocrine University. In addition, fellows are encouraged to attend:

  • regional conferences, including NY Thyroid Club and Metropolitan Bone Club, and
  • national conferences, including ENDO, ADA, AACE, ATA, ASBMR.

Photos from Previous Endocrine Society Meetings

Dr. Aleksic House

Dr. Aleksic House Staff Research Symposium

Drs. Bloomgarden aDrs. Bloomgarden and Qureshi Endocrine Society 2019nd Qureshi Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Bloomgarden and Qureshi Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Brutsaert and Reddy Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Brutsaert and Reddy Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Epstein and Mathias Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Epstein and Mathias Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Sharma and Tabatabaie Endocrine Society 2019

Drs. Sharma and Tabatabaie Endocrine Society 2019

Fellows faculty and alumni Endocrine Society dinner 2019

Fellows faculty and alumni Endocrine Society dinner 2019

Montefiore Endocrinology Fellowship Conference (Didactic) Schedule (Sept 2022 to March 2025)

  • 9/07/22  Dr. Antonio Cajigas, Cytology Review
  • 9/14/22 Dr. Adam Gersten, Pathology Review
  • 9/21/22 Dr. Robert Berkenblit, Adrenal Imaging
  • 9/28/22  Dr. Adam Gersten, Pathology Review Part 2
  • 10/12/22  Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Journal Club-Thyroid Nodules
  • 10/19/22 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Journal Club-Gene Classifiers
  • 10/26/22 Dr. Smita Abraham/Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, “Pheochromocytomas”
  • 11/2/22 Dr. Eric Epstein, Thyroid cancer Part II
  • 11/16/22 Dr. Tamar Baer, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
  • 11/30/22 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Adrenal HTN
  • 12/07/22 Dr. Smita Abraham, Cushing’s disease
  • 12/14/22 Dr. Yaron Tomer, Journal Club -Suboptimal Thyroid Hormone Replacement is associated with worse hospital outcomes
  • 01/04/23 Dr. Renee Moadel, PRRT of neuroendocrine malignancy
  • 01/18/23 Dr. Yaron Tomer, Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy
  • 01/25/23 Dr. Nisha Suda, Pituitary Imaging
  • 02/0123 Dr. Rafi Kabarriti “Radiation Therapy-when to refer
  • 02/08/23 Dr. Sofiya Milman, Acromegaly/GH deficiency
  • 02/15/23 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Journal Club-IPSS
  • 02/22/23 Dr. Ruth Freeman, Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy/case discussion
  • 03/08/23 Dr. Justin Mathew, Diabetes in pregnancy
  • 03/15/23 Dr. Staci Pollack-OB/GYN - Infertility
  • 03/22/23 Dr. Priyanka Mathias, Journal Club “Withdrawal of Long-term Cabergoline Therapy for Tumorol and Nontumoral Hyperprolactinemia”
  • 03/29/23 Dr. Staci Pollack, “Management of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency”
  • 04/12/23 Dr. Eric Epstein, “Diabetes Insipidus”
  • 04/19/23 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, “The LonGenity Study “Testosterone Replacement”
  • 04/26/23 Dr. Vafa Tabatabaie,“Osteoporosis medications”
  • 05/03/23 Dr. Jenna Le, “DXA interpretation”
  • 5/10/23 Dr. Beatrice Wong, “Aromatase inhibitors and osteoporosis”
  • 05/17/23 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Steroidogenesis inhibitors
  • 05/24/23 Dr. Vafa Tabatabaie, Osteoporosis medications/case discussion part 2
  • 05/31/23 Dr. Sriram Machineni, “Management of Obesity”
  • 06/07/23 Dr. David Carruthers, “Lipids”
  • 09/06/23 Dr. Adam Gersten, Thyroid Pathology Part 1
  • 09/13/23 Dr. Adam Gersten, Thyroid Pathology Part 2
  • 09/27/23 Dr. Rafi Kabariti, Radiation Therapy-when to refer
  • 10/11/23 Dr. Sofia Milman, “Acromegaly/GH deficiency”
  • 10/25/23 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Journal Club-Pituitary
  • 11/01/23 Dr. Smita Abraham, “Cushing’s Disease”
  • 11/08/23 Dr. Priyanka Mathias, Journal Club on Prolactin
  • 11/15/23 Dr. Sriram Machineni, “Management of Obesity”
  • 11/29/23 Dr. Robert Berkenblit, “Adrenal Imaging”
  • 12/13/23 Dr. David Carruthers, “Lipids”

Endocrine Grand Rounds Conference (Academic Year) January 2024 - March 2025

  • 01/05/24 Mohammad Aziz, MD (Endocrinology) “Interferences in Thyroid Test – When Labs Lie”
  • 01/12/24 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD and Monica Azmy, MD (Endocrinology) “The Great Debate” Total thyroidectomy vs lobectomy for BRAFV600E mutation identified from gene profile
  • 01/19/24 Eliza Geer, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) “Update on the pathogenesis and management of aggressive pituitary tumors”
  • 01/26/24 Tiffany Lu, DO (Endocrinology) “Autonomous Cortisol Secretion in Adrenal Incidentalomas”
  • 02/02/24 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) “Mad about MAFLD: Modulating the GH/1GF-1 Axis as a Therapeutic Target for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease”
  • 02/09/24 Stephen Zachariah, MD (Endocrinology) “History and Current State of Adrenal Insufficiency Diagnosis”
  • 02/16/24 Travis Goettemoeller, MD (Endocrinology) “Primary Hyperaldosteronism Part 1: Making the Diagnosis”
  • 02/23/24 Sarah Rosenheck, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Osteogenesis Imperfecta and bisphosphonate therapy”
  • 03/01/24 Tammy Tavdy, DO (Endocrinology) “Gestational Diabetes Mellitus – Is There a need for Earlier Screening?”
  • 03/08/24 Mohammad Aziz, MD (Endocrinology) “The Challenging Perioperative Management of Pheochromocytoma with Catecholamine-Induced Cardiomyopathy”
  • 03/15/24 Travis Goettemoeller, MD (Endocrinology) “Primary Hyperaldosteronism Part 2: Treatment”
  • 03/22/24 Lindsay A. Bischoff, MD “The Contemporary Role of Radioactive Iodine therapy in Thyroid Cancer”
  • 04/05/24 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) “HypoParaWhat?” Evaluation & Management of Hypoparathyroidism including Novel Therapies
  • 04/12/24 Tammy Tavdy, DO (Endocrinology) “Regulation of Endogenous Glucose Production by Central KATP Channels”
  • 04/19/24 Tammy Tavdy, DO (Endocrinology) “Standardizing the Peripartum Glycemic Management of T1DM”
  • 04/26/24 Maxwell Horowitz, DO (Endocrinology) “Romosozumab: The New Starting Quaterback?
  • 05/10/24 Travis Goettemoeller, MD (Endocrinology) “Implementing a Remote Patient Monitoring CGM Clinic for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes”
  • 05/17/24 Stephen Zachariah, MD (Endocrinology) “Reassessing Diagnostic Cortisol Values for Adrenal Insufficiency in a Highly Specific Cortisol Assay”
  • 05/17/24 James Bernasko, MD “Gestational diabetes testing: past, present and future”
  • 05/24/24 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD (Endocrinology) “Integrating Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Primary Care”
  • 06/07/24 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) “The Calm before Resmetirom”: The Role of Thyromimetics in Treatment of MASLD
  • 06/07/24 John Greally, MBBCh, DMed, Phd, FACMG “The New York Center for Rare Diseases”
  • 06/14//24 Travis Goettemoeller, MD (Endocrinology) “Standardizing Inpatient Diabetes Educational Resources”
  • 07/19/24 Tiffany Lu, DO (Endocrinology) “Non-Islet Cell Tumor Hypoglycemia: The Role of Big IGF-2 in Clinical Practice”
  • 07/26/24 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) “Does Actos Get a Bad Rap?”: An Appraisal of the Current Data on Risk Profile Associated with Pioglitazone
  • 08/02/24 Mohammad Aziz, MD (Endocrinology) “Hypercalcemia of Malignancy, in Pregnancy”
  • 08/09/24 Maxwell Horowitz, DO (Endocrinology) “The Necessity for Expedited Evaluation and Management of anaplastic Thyroid Cancer”
  • 08/16/24 Stephanie Giessner, MD “Differences of Sexual Development: beyond CAH”
  • 08/23/24 Ahmad Arabi, MD “Fertility Options for Patients with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency”
  • 09/06/24 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD (Endocrinology) “Dual-Hormone Pump: A Fully Closed-Loop System”
  • 09/13/24 Vafa Tabatabaie, MD (Endocrinology) “My Calcium is Low”
  • 10/25/24 Raul Lopez-Fanas, MD (Endocrinology) “From Genes to Clinical Outcomes: Navigating the MEN2A Spectrum, Part 1”
  • 11/01/24 Lorena Rasquin Leon, MD (Endocrinology) “From Genes to Clinical Outcomes: Navigating the MEN2A Spectrum”
  • 11/08/24 Panagiota Andreopoulou, MD “Bone Health in the setting of Breast Cancer”
  • 11/15/24 Sarah Rosenheck, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Transition of Care from a Pediatric to Adult Model of Care”
  • 11/22/24 Maxwell Horowitz, DO (Endocrinology) “Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus and the Efficacy of Newer Antihyperglycemic Agents”
  • 12/06/24 Tiffany Lu, DO (Endocrinology) “Growing Pains: Navigating the Complexities of Paget’s Disease of the Bone”
  • 12/13/24 Lorena Rasquin Leon, MD (Endocrinology) “New Frontier in Type 1 Diabetes: Staging, Screening, and Immunomodulation for Early Intervention”
  • 01/03/25 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) “A Gut Feeling: The Role of the Microbiome in PCOS and Emerging Therapeutics”
  • "Cooling the Heat: The Old and the New in Managing Vasomotor Symptoms"
  • 01/10/25 Katherine Cuan, DO (Endocrinology) "Cooling the Heat: The Old and the New in Managing Vasomotor Symptoms"
  • 01/17/25 Samrah Siddiqui, MD (Endocrinology) "Weight Loss with a side of weakness?" Muscle Loss with GLP-1 Receptor Agonists
  • 01/24/25 Tiffany Lu, DO (Endocrinology) Balancing the Scales: Emerging therapies in Hypothalamic Obesity
  • 01/31/25 Mohammad Aziz, MD (Endocrinology) When to Worry About Adrenal Incidentalomas: A Review of Methods to Evaluate the Risk of Malignancy of Adrenal Masses
  • 02/07/25 Melina Manolas, MD (Endocrinology) "Rock and a Hard Place: Navigating Complexities in Medical Management of Primary Aldosteronism"
  • 02/14/25 Raul Lopez-Fanas, MD (Endocrinology) "For the Love of Bones! Metabolic Bone Disease Following Bariatric Surgery"
  • 02/21/25 Tanir Shalhav, MD (Endocrinology) "Congenital hyperinsulinism: Recent advances in molecular mechanisms, diagnosis and management"
  • 02/28/25 Tiffany Lu, DO (Endocrinology) "The PFAS Problem: The Impact of Forever Chemicals on Metabolic Health"
  • 03/07/25 Mohammad Aziz, MD (Endocrinology) "The Tale of CIRCI: The HPA Axis Transformed by Critical Illness"
  • 03/14/25 Katherine Cuan, DO (Endocrinology) "Glucocorticoids-Induced Osteoporosis: Mechanisms, Impact and Clinical Considerations"
  • 03/21/25 Samrah Siddiqui, MD (Endocrinology) Navigating the Challenges of Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia: Insights and Management Strategies"
  • 03/28/25 Raul Lopez-Fanas, MD (Endocrinology) "The Compounded Dilemma: Tailored Therapy or Unregulated Gamble?"

Montefiore Endocrinology Fellowship Conference (Didactic) Schedule January 2024 – March 2025

  • 01/03/24 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Adrenal HTN? AVS/FP/FN meds
  • 01/10/24 Dr. Tamar Baer, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
  • 01/17/24 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Steroidogenesis Inhibitors-??
  • 01/24/24 Dr. Renee Moadel, Thyroid cancer/Parathyroid
  • 01/31/24 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Journal Club – Thyroid Nodules
  • 02/07/24 Dr. Agnes Colanta, Thyroid Cytology
  • 02/14/24 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Journal Club – gene classifiers
  • 02/21/24 Dr. Eric Epstein, Thyroid cancer part 2
  • 02/28/24 Dr. Yaron Tomer, Journal Club or lecture on thyroid autoimmunity
  • 03/06/24 Dr. Yaron Tomer, Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy
  • 03/13/24 Dr. Justin Mathew, Diabetes in pregnancy
  • 03/20/24 Dr. Staci Pollack, Management of premature ovarian insufficiency (options for fertility, hormone replacement, workup
  • 03/27/24 Dr. Staci Pollack, Infertility – (differential diagnoses, workup, evaluation, likelihood of successful pregnancy
  • 04/03/24 Dr. Ruth Freeman, Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy/case discussions
  • 04/10/24 Dr. Robert Beil, Transgender medicine
  • 04/17/24 Dr. Vafa Tabatabaie, Osteoporosis medications/case discussion
  • 05/01/24 Dr. Vafa Tabatabaie, Osteoporosis medications/case discussion part 2
  • 05/08/24 Dr. Jenna Le, DXA interpretation/case discussions
  • 05/15/24 Dr. Beatric Wong, Aromatase inhibitors and osteoporosis
  • 05/22/24 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Testosterone replacement/case discussions
  • 09/11/24 Dr. Yaron Tomer, Thyroid Cases Part II
  • 09/18/24 Dr. Adam Gersten, Thyroid Pathology Part 1 – Normal Follicle, Hypo and Hyperthyroidism
  • 09/25/24 Dr. Agnes Colanta, Thyroid Cytology 101- Focus on Bethesda and Molecular Testing
  • 10/09/24 Dr. Adam Gersten, Thyroid Pathology Part 2 – Thyroid Cancer & More Complex Cases
  • 10/16/24 Dr. Nisha Suda, Pituitary Imaging
  • 10/23/24 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Journal Club – IPSS and other methods
  • 10/30/24 Dr. Raffi Kabariti, Role of RT in Pituitary Disease
  • 11/06/24 Dr. Smita Abraham, Cushing’s Disease
  • 11/13/24 Dr. Sofiya Milman, Acromegaly/GH Deficiency
  • 11/20/24 Dr. Eric Epstein, AVP Deficiency
  • 12/04/24 Dr. David Carruthers, Lipids Part 1
  • 12/11/24 Dr. David Carruthers, Lipids Part 2
  • 12/18/24 Dr. Sriram Machineni, Management of Obesity
  • 01/08/25 Dr. Tamar Baer, CAH
  • 01/15/25 Dr. Noah Bloomgarden, Adrenal HTN + AVS Interpretation
  • 01/22/25 Dr. Robert Kerkebilt, Adrenal Imaging
  • 02/05/25 Dr. Smita Abraham, Cushing’s Part 2
  • 02/12/25 Dr. Staci Pollack, POI and HRT (Including pre-menopausal HRT)
  • 02/19/25 Dr. Staci Pollack, Infertility
  • 02/26/25 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Women’s Health JC
  • 03/05/25 Dr. Robert Beil, Transgender Medicine
  • 03/12/25 Dr. Levyn, Lobectomy Journal Club
  • 03/19/25 Dr. Sandra Aleksic, Testosterone Replacement Therapy
  • 03/26/25 Dr. Justin Mathew, Diabetes in Pregnancy

Selected Diabetes Research Center Seminars (Academic Year 2019/2020)

SpeakerTitle
Steven Kliewer, PhD
UT Southwestern
Metabolic Stress Hormone FGF21: From Pharmacology to Physiology
Dr. Nir Barzilai
Einstein
How to Die Young at a very Old Age.
Alberto Pugliese, MD
universidad de miami
Type 1 Diabetes:  Lessons from the JDRF nPod
(Network for Pancreatic Organ Donor with Diabetes)
Alessandro Doria, MD, PhD
Harvard/Joslin
From Genes to Bedside: How Genetics Can Help
Us Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes
Sara Tishkoff, PhD
UPenn
Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications 
for Health and Disease
Silvio Inzucchi, MD
Yale
Glucose Lowering Medications and CVD: Has the Holy
Grail Been Found?
Christoph Buettner, PhD
Mount Sinai
New Approaches and Insights into the Mechanisms of Impaired
CNS Control of Metabolism in Diabetes and Obesity
Diego Bohorquez, PhD*
Duke
A Subliminal Sense for Calories
Raimund Herzog, MD
Yale
Impact of Hypoglycemia Exposure on Brain Metabolism and
Function in Type 1 Diabetes