Dr. Mitchell Eugene Geffner MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
4650 W Sunset Blvd Ms# 61 Los Angeles CA, 90027Rating
5/5
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Dr. Mitchell Geffner is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Geffner 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
Albert Einstein Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1974
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Growth hormone exerts potent anabolic effects in an adolescent with human
- Aplasia of right internal carotid artery and hypopituitarism.
- Near-normal linear growth in the setting of markedly reduced growth hormone and IGF-1. A case report.
- Trans-sphenoidal and sphenoethmoidal encephalocele: report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Effect of protease inhibitors combined with standard antiretroviral therapy on linear growth and weight gain in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected children.
- From the control tower: some is better than none and a little bit goes a long way.
- Cognitive and behavioral characteristics of turner syndrome: exploring a role for ovarian hormones in female sexual differentiation.
- Simultaneous development of pheochromocytomas in prepubertal siblings with von
- Hypopituitarism in childhood.
- Hypertension in hypophosphatemic rickets--role of secondary hyperparathyroidism.
- Precocious puberty secondary to topical testosterone exposure.
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity among Armenian adolescents with PTSD symptoms.
- Transition to the adult endocrine clinic: testing pituitary function - what tests and when?
- Bromocriptine and Triac therapy for hyperthyroidism due to pituitary resistance to thyroid hormone.
- Permanent diabetes without serological evidence of autoimmunity after transient neonatal diabetes.
Awards
- 1972 Phi Beta Kappa
- UCLA 1980 Fellow-of-the-year teaching award
- 2010-2012 Southern California Super Doctors
- 2009 Southern California Super Doctors 2008
- 2007 Los Angeles Super Doctors
Treatments
- Endocrinology
- Birth Defects
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves' Disease
Professional Memberships
- Member Pediatric Endocrine Society
- Member Society for Pediatric
- Member Research
- Member American Pediatric Society
- Member The Endocrine Society
- Member American Diabetes Association
- Member Los Angeles Pediatric Society
Fellowships
- University of California Los Angeles Pediatric Endocrinology 1979
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