Dr. Joseph A Majzoub MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115Rating
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Dr. Joseph Majzoub is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Majzoub 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
Stanford Univ Sch Of Med- Stanford Ca 1974
Stanford University School of Medicine 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology and Metabolism
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- High glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity.
- Regulation of hepatic glycogen in the insulin-like growth factor II-deficient mouse.
- Normal suppression of the reproductive axis following stress in corticotropin-releasing hormone-deficient mice.
- Inducible binding of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-responsive element binding protein (CREB) to a cAMP-responsive promoter in vivo.
- Animal models of CRH deficiency.
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone deficiency unmasks the proinflammatory effect of epinephrine.
- Pediatric reference intervals for serum thyroxine, triiodothyronine, thyrotropin, and free thyroxine.
- Stress-induced behaviors require the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) receptor, but not CRH.
- CRH-deficient mice have a normal anorectic response to chronic stress.
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulates angiogenesis and epithelial tumor growth in the skin.
- Virilising 21-hydroxylase deficiency: timing of newborn screening and confirmatory tests can be crucial.
- Urocortin expression in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus is up-regulated by stress and corticotropin-releasing hormone deficiency.
- Neuroanatomy of human appetitive function: A positron emission tomography investigation.
- CRH deficiency impairs but does not block pituitary-adrenal responses to diverse stressors.
- Impaired basal and restraint-induced epinephrine secretion in corticotropin-releasing hormone-deficient mice.
Awards
- 2011 Boston Super Doctors
- 1997 Harvard Med School Mentoring Award
Treatments
- Neuroendocrinology
- Diabetes
Fellowships
- Adult Endocrinology Fellowship - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA
- Mass General Hospital, Fellow:Endcrine 1976
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Fellow:Endocrinology 1976
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