Dr. Karen L. Herbst, PhD, MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
3350 La Jolla Village Dr Mailcode 9-111-G San Diego CA, 92161About
Dr. Herbst is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is a Board-certified Physician and Endocrinologist and works as a clinician within the San Diego VA Medical ...
Education and Training
Rush Med Coll of Rush Univ, Chicago Il 1996
RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV MED CTR 1996
Rush Medical
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- P300 as a clinical assay: rationale, evaluation, and findings.
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists.
- Testosterone action on skeletal muscle.
- Tetrahydrogestrinone is an androgenic steroid that stimulates androgen receptor-mediated, myogenic differentiation in C3H10T1/2 multipotent mesenchymal cells and promotes muscle accretion in orchidectomized male rats.
- Pilot study: rapidly cycling hypobaric pressure improves pain after 5 days in adiposis dolorosa.
- Behavioural weight management for the primary careprovider.
- Subcutaneous adipose tissue fatty acid desaturation in adults with and without rare adipose disorders.
- Rare adipose disorders (RADs) masquerading as obesity.
- Testosterone with dutasteride, but not anastrazole, improves insulin sensitivity in young obese men: a randomized controlled trial.
- Differences in Weight Loss Between Persons on Standard Balanced vs Nutrigenetic Diets in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Lipedema: A Relatively Common Disease with Extremely Common Misconceptions.
- Differentiating lipedema and Dercum's disease.
- Pilot study: whole body manual subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) therapy improved pain and SAT structure in women with lipedema.
- A mutation in ribosomal protein L9 affects ribosomal hopping during translation of gene 60 from bacteriophage T4.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Diabetes, General Care
Fellowships
- University of Washington School of Medicine - Endocrinology 2002
- (Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (Internal Medicine)), UNIV OF WA SCH OF MED, SEATTLE, WA 2000
- University of Washington, Dept of Radiation Oncology
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