Education

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism:
EDUCATION

Division faculty provide undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and CME educational content in the School of Medicine. The division is approved by the ACGME to accept four fellows per year, for two-year (primarily clinical) or three-year (clinical plus research) fellowships.

The Endocrinology fellowship is partially supported by institutional training grants from the National Institutes of Health, which provide stipends and research funds during the second and third year of training. The division currently has one active T32 training grant, “Research Training in Neuroendocrinology,” directed by Robert Carey.

Endocrinology’s fellows during 2013-2014 were:

Third Year

• Amy Anderson
• Ruchi Bhabhra
• Nagashree Gundu Rao
• Sharmila Subaran

Second Year

• Wenyan Huang
• Jennifer Gibert
• Katarina Topchyan
• Amanda Russell-Kleiner

First Year (with institutions from which they came):

• Ramya Embar Srinivasan (University of Tennessee)
• Farhad Mohammed Hasan (Rochester General Hospital)
• Eleanor Hutchens (University of Maryland)

Highlight: Amy Anderson, MD – Endocrinology Fellow

Division fellows continue to perform at a very high level, winning grants, publishing papers and giving oral and poster presentations. A sampling:

Amy Anderson

• Endocrine Fellows Foundation research grant for “Etiologic factors of obesity-associated hyperandrogenemia during puberty” (July 2013)
• Endocrine Society poster presentations, 2013 & 2014 annual meetings
• First-author publication, May 2014 issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, on childhood obesity and PCOS: abstract.

Ruchi Bhabhra

• NIH-National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases [NIDDK] National Research Service Award (F32) for: “Progesterone control of diurnal GnRH pulses in puberty: impact of androgen excess”
• Endocrine Society 2014 Clinical Fellows Travel Grant and Abstract Award to present oral abstract (“Testosterone regulates the evolution of daytime GnRH pulse secretion during pubertal maturation in girls?”)

Ramya Embar Srinivasan

• International Congress of Endocrinology, 2014: abstract & oral presentation (“Nutrient-insulin interactions in the pancreas and periphery”)

Wenyan Huang

• Endocrine Fellows Foundation award
• DOM’s 2014 Carey-Marshall-Thorner Scholars Research Day: Best Fellow Poster Presentation award

Amanda Russell-Kleiner

• NIH National Research Service Award (F32) for: “Impact of type 1 diabetes on pan-arterial vascular function”
• DOM’s “Tomorrow’s Professor Today” program: completed first year

Sharmila Subaran

• Endocrine Society meeting: oral presentation
• American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions–poster presentation
• 2013 DOM’s Carey-Marshall-Thorner Scholars Research Day, 2013: Best Fellow Oral Presentation
• Publication in Clinical Science, with accompanying podcast

Katarina Topchyan

• Endocrine Society 2013, poster presentation with unusual case report