Dr. Dr. Dina S. Guyetsky, MD, PhD

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Get to know Pediatric Endocrinologist Dr. Dina S. Guyetsky, who serves patients in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Dr. Guyetsky is a highly trained pediatric endocrinologist treating a wide range of pediatric issues. She specializes in adolescent medicine, endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism, internal medicine/pediatrics, and pediatric endocrinology. 

In practice for over five decades, she sees patients at Neighborhood Pediatrics in Billerica, Massachusetts. She is also affiliated with several hospitals in her local area, including Winchester Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Lowell General Hospital. 

Back in the early days of her academic career, Dr, Guyetsky graduated with her medical degree from the Bogomolets National Medical University in Ukraine in 1967. She then went on to complete her residency at the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, after which she relocated to the United States. 

Pediatric endocrinology is a medical subspecialty dealing with disorders of the endocrine glands, such as variations of physical growth and sexual development in childhood, diabetes, and many more. Pediatric endocrinologists, depending upon the age range of the patients they treat, care for patients from infancy to late adolescence and young adulthood. They treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes, growth disorders, pubertal abnormalities, obesity, differences of sex development, bone and mineral disturbances, hypoglycemia, and other disorders relating to the adrenal, parathyroid, thyroid, and pituitary glands.

Fluent in both English and Spanish, Dr. Guyetsky has been the recipient of Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2014) and Patients’ Choice Award (2015).

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