Dr. Joseph L Shaker MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
403 S 11th St Suite 100 Boise ID, 83702About
Dr. Shaker is one of six physicians joining the Medical College's full-time faculty who was previously a member of Midwest Endocrinology Associates, the only private practice in Wisconsin to ever be r ...
Education and Training
Georgetown University School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acute extracapsular parathyroid hemorrhage: case report and review of the literature.
- Pseudohypercalcemia in an elderly patient with multiple myeloma: report of a case and review of literature.
- Artifactual reduction in bone density as a result of technetium-99m MDP for bone scanning: report of two cases.
- Routine inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the differential diagnosis of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)-dependent Cushing's syndrome: early recognition of the occult ectopic ACTH syndrome.
- Evolution of a pheochromocytoma.
- Hypoglycemic coma in anorexia nervosa. Case report and review of the literature.
- Successful treatment of tumor-induced osteomalacia with CT-guided percutaneous ethanol and cryoablation.
- Paget's Disease of Bone: A Review of Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Management.
- WR-2721 reduces bone loss after hindlimb tenotomy in rats.
- Recent developments in osteogenesis imperfecta.
- Lower extremity insufficiency fractures: an underappreciated manifestation of endogenous Cushing's syndrome.
- Thyroid needle aspiration in a community hospital.
- Osteomalacia with hypophosphatemia and hypercalciuria: a possible new variant of osteomalacia.
- Mutation analysis of coding sequences for type I procollagen in individuals with low bone density.
- Neonatal hypothyroxinemia with normal thyrotropin. Clue to maternal Graves' disease.
Awards
- 2011 Milwaukee Super Doctors
Treatments
- Kidney Stones, Metabolic Bone Disease, Osteoporosis
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Goiter
Fellowships
- Endocrinology - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Philadelphia 1987
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