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UCSF Medical Center is ranked fourth in the nation
and the best in California by U.S. News & World Report in the treatment
of hormonal disorders.
Our endocrinology and metabolism services include comprehensive
consultation and treatment for patients with diseases of the endocrine
system, such as hypothalamic and pituitary disease, adrenal disease,
amenorrhea, hirsutism, male sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis and
metabolic bone disease, abnormalities of the thyroid and parathyroid
glands, diabetes, renal stones and lipid disorders. The UCSF Diabetes Teaching
Center offers diabetes educational workshops, individual counseling, and
an online course (Diabetes Education Online www.deo.ucsf.edu) for
patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
For over 50 years, the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UCSF
has been an international leader in both clinical endocrinology and
basic endocrine research.
Our goals remain simple. We bring the questions and unknowns from our
patient's bedside to the research laboratory, not only to improve
our understanding of the disease process, but to develop new therapeutic
modalities. We then bring the advances of the laboratory back to our
patients.
Members of our department are world renowned and distinguished in their
research and treatment of diabetes, osteoporosis, adrenal disease,
thyroid disease, pituitary disease, and disorders of
lipoproteins.
Endocrinology is the study of hormones and
the treatment of hormone based diseases. The endocrine glands produce
chemicals called hormones. These hormones are released into the blood
stream and exert their action by stimulating other organs in the body.
The major endocrine glands are the thyroid, pancreas, parathyroid,
adrenal, gonad and pituitary. The hormones from these glands regulate
growth, metabolism, blood pressure, reproduction as well as many other
necessary functions.
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