Dr. Joshua David Safer M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
732 Harrison Ave Preston, 2nd Floor Boston MA, 02118Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Joshua Safer practices Endocrinology in Boston, MA. Dr. Safer specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Safer examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
New Jersey College of Dentistry 1990
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Twenty-one-gauge needles provide more cellular samples than twenty-five-gauge needles in fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid but may not provide increased diagnostic accuracy.
- Adrenal metastasis secondary to papillary thyroid carcinoma.
- Out of the shadows: it is time to mainstream treatment for transgender patients.
- Diagnostic confusion attributable to spurious elevation of both total thyroid
- Male sex, African American race or ethnicity, and triiodothyronine levels at diagnosis predict weight gain after antithyroid medication and radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism.
- In thyroid fine-needle aspiration, use of bedside-prepared slides significantly increased diagnostic adequacy and specimen cellularity relative to solution-based samples.
- Graves disease and gynecomastia in 2 roommates.
- The thyroid hormone degrading type 3 deiodinase is the primary deiodinase active in murine epidermis.
- Finding the right balance between resistance and sensitivity: a review of the cardiac manifestations of the syndrome of resistance to thyroid hormone and the implications for treatment.
- Thyroid hormone action on skin.
- Topical androgen antagonism promotes cutaneous wound healing without systemic androgen deprivation by blocking β-catenin nuclear translocation and cross-talk with TGF-β signaling in keratinocytes.
- Thyroid hormone action on skin.
- Transgender medical research, provider education, and patient access are overdue.
- Thyroid hormone and wound healing.
- Progress on the road to better medical care for transgender patients.
Awards
- American College of Physicians 2007 Fellow
Treatments
- Thyroid Problems
- Gynecomastia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Thyroiditis
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
Fellowships
- Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA 1996
- Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Fellow 1993
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