Dr. Douglas S Kerr MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
11100 Euclid Ave Cleveland OH, 44106About
Dr. Douglas Kerr is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Kerr 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.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Autosomal dominant acute necrotizing encephalopathy maps to 2q12.1-2q13.
- Oxidative phosphorylation analysis: assessing the integrated functional activity of human skeletal muscle mitochondria--case studies.
- Somatic mosaicism in a male with an exon skipping mutation in PDHA1 of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex results in a milder phenotype.
- Mutations in the MPV17 gene are responsible for rapidly progressive liver failure in infancy.
- Treatment of mitochondrial electron transport chain disorders: a review of clinical trials over the past decade.
- Somatic mosaicism for PDHA1 mutation in a male with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency.
- Deletion at chromosomal band Xp22.12-Xp22.13 involving PDHA1 in a patient with congenital lactic acidosis.
- Spectrum of neurological and survival outcomes in pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) deficiency: lack of correlation with genotype.
- Review of clinical trials for mitochondrial disorders: 1997-2012.
- Somatic mosaicism for a novel mutation in a male with severe pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency.
- Succinyl-CoA synthetase (SUCLA2) deficiency in two siblings with impaired activity of other mitochondrial oxidative enzymes in skeletal muscle without mitochondrial DNA depletion.
- Lethal neonatal case and review of primary short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase (SCEH) deficiency associated with secondary lymphocyte pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) deficiency.
Fellowships
- Nutrition, Metabolism - University of the West Indies 1973
- Biochemistry - National Insitutes of Health 1968
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