Dr. Ron Samuel Newfield M.D.
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
8110 Birmingham Way San Diego CA, 92123Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Ron Newfield is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Newfield 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.
Education and Training
Technion-Israel Inst Of Tech- Fac Of Med- Haifa- Israel 1989
Technion-Israel Inst of Technology Faculty of Medicine
Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prenatal diagnosis and treatment of 11beta-hydroxylase deficiency congenital adrenal hyperplasia resulting in normal female genitalia.
- Normocortisolemic Cushing's syndrome initially presenting with increased glucocorticoid receptor numbers.
- Graves' disease in childhood.
- Height distribution in children with Tourette syndrome.
- Tyrosinemia I, a model for human diseases mediated by 2-oxoacid-utilizing dioxygenases: hepatotoxin suppression by NTBC does not normalize hepatic collagen metabolism.
- Greater prevalence of iron deficiency in overweight and obese children and adolescents.
- Recombinant PTH for initial management of neonatal hypocalcemia.
- A child with pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade due to previously
- Autosomal dominant hypoparathyroidism with severe hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia, successfully treated with recombinant PTH and continuous subcutaneous magnesium infusion.
- ACTH receptor blockade: a novel approach to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia, or Cushing's disease.
- Self-limiting hematuria following growth hormone provocative testing with arginine hydrochloride.
- Policy challenges in the fight against childhood obesity: low adherence in San Diego area schools to the California Education Code regulating physical education.
- Successful use of long acting octreotide in two cases with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and severe hypoglycemia.
- Topical sulfonylurea as a novel therapy for hypertrichosis secondary to diazoxide, and potentially for other conditions with excess hair growth.
- Mutational Analysis in Pediatric Thyroid Cancer and Correlations with Age, Ethnicity, and Clinical Presentation.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Obesity
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Cystic Fibrosis (cf)
- Thyroiditis
- Graves' Disease
Fellowships
- Cornell Univ. Medical College
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