Didactics & Conferences

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 Staff Research Symposium
Drs. Bloomgarden and Qureshi Endocrine Society 2019
Drs. Brutsaert and Reddy Endocrine Society 2019
Drs. Epstein and Mathias Endocrine Society 2019
Drs. Sharma and Tabatabaie Endocrine Society 2019
Fellows faculty and alumni Endocrine Society dinner 2019

Montefiore Endocrinology Fellowship Conference (Didactic) Schedule (Sept 2022-June 2023)

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
03/01/23 Dr. Robert Beil, Transgender medicine
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 Conferences (Academic Year 2021-2022)

7/16/21 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Use of Molecular Testing for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules”
7/23/21 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Diagnosis and Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia”
7/30/21 Lakshmi Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Metastatic Paraganglioma – Review of genetics”
8/6/21 Lisa Brandt, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Stem cell therapy in Type 1 diabetes mellitus”
8/13/21 Arielle Bayer, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Kallmann Syndrome & Infertility Management”
8/27/21 Monica Nogueira, MD (Endocrinology) “Use of GLP-1 receptor agonist for management of obesity”
9/10/21 Vijay Agarwal, MD (Neurosurgery) “Adventures In The Sella”
9/17/21 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Bisphosphonate drug holiday: who, when and why?
10/1/21 Yaron Tomer, MD., FACP (Endocrinology) “The Genetics of Thyroid Autoimmunity: New Discoveries Driving Translational Studies”
10/29/21 Lauren Iacono, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Future perspectives and Approach to Management”
11/5/21 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Hyperglycemia in pregnancy: Utility of Continuous glucose monitoring”
11/12/21 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Understanding hormone assays”
11/19/21 Naomi Friedman, MD (Endocrinology) “X-Linked Hypophosphatemia and Use of Burosumab”
12/3/21 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Bone Turnover Markers and Their Use in Osteoporosis”
12/10/21 Shiming Xu, MD (Endocrinology) “Diazoxide use in hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia: it’s history, effectiveness and safety”
12/17/21 Julian Gingold, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Disorders of sexual differentiation: workup and management”
1/7/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Management of Coexisting Diabetes and NAFLD”
1/14/22 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Withdrawal of cabergoline in patients with prolactinoma”
1/21/22 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Pseudo-Cushing: A diagnostic challenge in depression”
1/28/22 Naomi Friedman, MD (Endocrinology) “The Role of IPSS in the Diagnosis of Cushing’s disease”
2/4/22 Brittany Espino, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Monogenic Obesity”
2/11/22 Jenna Kahn, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Management of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI)”
2/18/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Review of Liothyronine Use in Patients with Hypothyroidism”
2/25/22 Shiming Xu, MD (Endocrinology) “Aromatase Inhibitors and Bone Loss”
3/4/22 Monica Nogueira, MD (Endocrinology) “Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Thyroid Dysfunction”
3/11/22 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia”
3/18/22 Andrea Peterson, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in pregnancy”
3/25/22 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in thyroid nodule risk stratification”
4/1/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Radiofrequency Ablation in the treatment of thyroid nodules”
4/8/22 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Cardiometabolic outcomes in primary aldosteronism”
4/22/22 Fellows Quality Improvement Project Presentations

Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD – F2, Shiming Xu, MD F1, Shivani Agarwal, MD, Priyanka Mathias, MD Faculty
“Targeting Workflow Inefficiencies to Improve Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Prescription Rates in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)”

Amanda Pechman, MD – F2, Naomi Friedman, MD F1, David Carruthers, MD, Simona Stefan, MD Faculty
“Osteoporosis Screening in Liver Transplant Patients”

Alen Sajan, MD – F2, Monica Nogueira, MD F1, Nisha Suda, MD Faculty
“Glycemic Excursions in Type 2 diabetics Receiving Injections with glucocorticoids for pain management”

Moin Sattar, MD – F2, Simge Yuksel, MD F1, Jill Crandall, MD Faculty
“The Use of MedicAlert Bracelets in patients with adrenal insufficiency”
5/6/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “The role and potential implications of R-Spondin on Metabolic Disease”
5/13/22 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Mixed methods research in Diabetes”
5/20/22 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Re-assessment of diagnostic cortisol values for adrenal insufficiency using a highly specific cortisol assay”
5/27/22 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “2-A-Day: A Pilot Study of Time-Restricted Feeding in Humans”

Selected Endocrine Grand Rounds Conferences (Academic Year 2021-2023)

7/16/21 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Use of Molecular Testing for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules”
7/23/21 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Diagnosis and Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia”
7/30/21 Lakshmi Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Metastatic Paraganglioma – Review of genetics”
8/6/21 Lisa Brandt, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Stem cell therapy in Type 1 diabetes mellitus”
8/13/21 Arielle Bayer, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Kallmann Syndrome & Infertility Management”
8/27/21 Monica Nogueira, MD (Endocrinology) “Use of GLP-1 receptor agonist for management of obesity”
9/10/21 Vijay Agarwal, MD (Neurosurgery) “Adventures In The Sella”
9/17/21 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Bisphosphonate drug holiday: who, when and why?
10/1/21 Yaron Tomer, MD., FACP (Endocrinology) “The Genetics of Thyroid Autoimmunity: New Discoveries Driving Translational Studies”
10/29/21 Lauren Iacono, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Future perspectives and Approach to Management”
11/5/21 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Hyperglycemia in pregnancy: Utility of Continuous glucose monitoring”
11/12/21 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Understanding hormone assays”
11/19/21 Naomi Friedman, MD (Endocrinology) “X-Linked Hypophosphatemia and Use of Burosumab”
12/3/21 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Bone Turnover Markers and Their Use in Osteoporosis”
12/10/21 Shiming Xu, MD (Endocrinology) “Diazoxide use in hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia: it’s history, effectiveness and safety”
12/17/21 Julian Gingold, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Disorders of sexual differentiation: workup and management”
1/7/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Management of Coexisting Diabetes and NAFLD”
1/14/22 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Withdrawal of cabergoline in patients with prolactinoma”
1/21/22 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Pseudo-Cushing: A diagnostic challenge in depression”
1/28/22 Naomi Friedman, MD (Endocrinology) “The Role of IPSS in the Diagnosis of Cushing’s disease”
2/4/22 Brittany Espino, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) “Monogenic Obesity”
2/11/22 Jenna Kahn, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Management of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI)”
2/18/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Review of Liothyronine Use in Patients with Hypothyroidism”
2/25/22 Shiming Xu, MD (Endocrinology) “Aromatase Inhibitors and Bone Loss”
3/4/22 Monica Nogueira, MD (Endocrinology) “Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Thyroid Dysfunction”
3/11/22 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia”
3/18/22 Andrea Peterson, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology) “Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in pregnancy”
3/25/22 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in thyroid nodule risk stratification”
4/1/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “Radiofrequency Ablation in the treatment of thyroid nodules”
4/8/22 Simge Yuksel, MD (Endocrinology) “Cardiometabolic outcomes in primary aldosteronism”
4/22/22 Fellows Quality Improvement Project Presentations

Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD – F2, Shiming Xu, MD F1, Shivani Agarwal, MD, Priyanka Mathias, MD Faculty
“Targeting Workflow Inefficiencies to Improve Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Prescription Rates in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)”

Amanda Pechman, MD – F2, Naomi Friedman, MD F1, David Carruthers, MD, Simona Stefan, MD Faculty
“Osteoporosis Screening in Liver Transplant Patients”

Alen Sajan, MD – F2, Monica Nogueira, MD F1, Nisha Suda, MD Faculty
“Glycemic Excursions in Type 2 diabetics Receiving Injections with glucocorticoids for pain management”

Moin Sattar, MD – F2, Simge Yuksel, MD F1, Jill Crandall, MD Faculty
“The Use of MedicAlert Bracelets in patients with adrenal insufficiency”
5/6/22 Moin Sattar, MD (Endocrinology) “The role and potential implications of R-Spondin on Metabolic Disease”
5/13/22 Lakshmi P. Mahali, MD (Endocrinology) “Mixed methods research in Diabetes”
5/20/22 Alen Sajan, MD (Endocrinology) “Re-assessment of diagnostic cortisol values for adrenal insufficiency using a highly specific cortisol assay”
5/27/22 Amanda Pechman, MD (Endocrinology) “2-A-Day: A Pilot Study of Time-Restricted Feeding in Humans”
6/03/22 No Conference
6/24/22 Naomi Friedman, MD, “Review of Adrenocortical Carcinoma”
7/15/22 Shiming Xu, MD, “Isolated Osteoporosis at the Forearm”
7/22/22 Simge Yuksel, MD, “Autonomous Cortisol Secretion in Adrenal Incidentalomas”
7/29/22 Monica Nogueira, MD, Use of Rosozumab for Osteoporosis Treatment”
8/05/22 Naomi Friedman, MD, “Intermittent Fasting”
8/12/22 Carly Barron, MD, Peds Endo, “Endocrine Complications in Sickel Cell Disease: A Focus on Growth, Puberty and Gonadal Function”
8/19/22 Shiming Xu, MD, “Diabetic Foot Ulcer”
8/26/22 No Conference
09/02/22 Stephen Zachariah, MD “T3 Supplementation in Hypothyroidism”
09/09/22 Simge Yuksel, MD 9AM "Silent Pituitary Adenomas"
10/21/22 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD “Lipoprotein X”
10/28/22 Shiming Xu, MD "Transgender Care and Osteoporosis"
11/04/22 Monica Nogueira, MD "Quantifying whole body glucose metabolism: Glucose clamp technique"
11/18/22 Brittany Espino, MD "A Case of Secondary Amenorrhea"
11/25/22 No Conference
12/02/22 Naomi Friedman, MD "Mild Primary Hyperparathyroidism”
12/09/22 Shiming Xu, MD "Denosumab Discontinuation"
12/16/22 Simge Yuksel, MD "Osteoporosis after Solid Organ Transplanation"
12/23/22 No Conference
12/30/22 No Conference
01/06/23 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD "Therapeutic anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies"
01/13/23 Tammy Tavdy, MD "Management of Prolactinomas in Pregnancy"
01/20/23 Monica Nogueira, MD “Cardiovascular considerations in gender affirming hormone therapy”
01/27/23 Stephen Zachariah, MD " GLP1 and Metabolic Surgery"
02/03/23 Naomi Friedman, MD "Treatment Resistant Acromegaly"
02/10/23 Travis Goettemoeller, MD "DIPNECH and Ectopic Cushing Syndrome"
02/17/23 Lauren Iacono, MD "McCune Albright and Fibrous Dysplasia: Endocrine Sequalae from Childhood to Adulthood and Novel Treatment Approaches to Fibrous Dysplasia"
02/24/23 Joseph Chervenak, MD "Artificial Intelligence in the era of ChatGPT: Implications for Endocrinology"
03/03/23 Travis Goettemoeler, MD "The Weight Set Point"
03/10/23 Monica Nogueira, MD "Restoring Central Regulation of Glucose Metabolism in T2D"
03/17/23 Dr. Jaydira Del Rivero – Virtual "Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas: Evaluation, Management and Clinical Pearls"
03/24/23 Stephen Zachariah, MD "Thyroid Eye Disease"
03/31/23 Monica Nogueria, MD “Quality Improvement Project "Increasing equitable access to connected InPen data use and shared decision making"
04/07/23 No Conference
04/14/23 Tammy Travdy, MD “Paget's Disease of the Bone”
04/21/23 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD "The Genetic Landscape of Monogenic Diabetes"
04/28/23 Travis Goettemoeller, MD “PCSK9 Inhibitors: A Review”
05/05/23 Research Symposium/Rifkin Lecture
05/12/23 Drs. Hanna Lee/ Simona Stefan- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Thyroiditis
05/19/23 F2 Research talk-Simge Yuksel
05/26/23 F2 Research talk-Shiming Xu
06/02/23 F2 Research talk-Naomi Friedman “2-A-Day: A Pilot Study of Time Restricted Eating in Humans”
06/09/23 Naomi Friedman, MD, Simge Yuksel, MD, and Shimming Xu, MD 2nd Year Fellows Quality Improvement Projects
07/21/23 Shilpa Guntaka, MD “Short stature: Understanding the role of ethnicity in height determination”
07/28/23 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD "Postbariatric hypoglycemia"
08/04/23 Tammy Tavdy, MD “Euglycemic DKA - A Review”
08/11/23 Angela Liu, MD “Pathophysiology of folliculogenesis in Turner Syndrome and evolving technique for fertility preservation”
09/01/23 Maxwell Horowitz, DO, MS “Cardiovascular Manifestations of Hyperthyroidism”
09/08/23 Jovan Milosavljevic, MD “NIFTP: Redefining the Spectrum of Thyroid Cancer”
10/27/23 Tammy Tavdy, DO “Hyperandrogenism in Post-Menopausal Woman”
11/03/23 Tiffany Lu, DO “Iatrogenic Cushing’s Syndrome from Drug-Drug Interactions in HIV”
11/10/23 Mohammad Aziz, MD “Sulfonylurea Toxicity and the Use of Octreotide”
11/17/23 Alexa Durante, MD “Factors that influence glycemic control in pediatric patients with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)”
11/24/23 No Conference
12/01/23 Maxwell Horowitz, DO “Amiodarone Induced Thyrotoxicosis: Who is Susceptible?”
12/08/23 Tammy Tavdy, DO “Cardiovascular Safety of Testosterone Replacement Therapy”
12/15/23 Stephen Zachariah, MD “Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency and Supplementation”
12/15/23 Nadia Laniado, DDS “Periodontal disease and diabetes: the case for chairside HbA1c screening”

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

Speaker	Title
Steven Kliewer, PhD UT Southwestern	Metabolic Stress Hormone FGF21: From Pharmacology to Physiology
Nir Barzilai, MD Einstein	How to Die Young at a very Old Age.
Alberto Pugliese, MD University of 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

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Photos from Previous Endocrine Society Meetings

Montefiore Endocrinology Fellowship Conference (Didactic) Schedule (Sept 2022-June 2023)

Endocrine Grand Rounds Conferences (Academic Year 2021-2022)

Selected Endocrine Grand Rounds Conferences (Academic Year 2021-2023)

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

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