Professor, Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Stephen H. Lafranchi, MD
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Stephen H. Lafranchi is an expert in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. He researched medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a top medical college. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is ranked 13/7 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 7 awards: "Visiting Professor", "Department of Pediatrics 2014 Kaplan Lecture", "Krishna Saxena Endocrine Lecture", "Visting Professor", "Recognized as one of "The Best Doctors in America"", "Fogarty Senior International Fellowship" and "Joseph B. Bilderback Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award". Doctor Stephen H. Lafranchi, MD is a published doctor and has 80 publications published. The lastest was: 'Follow-up of newborns with low thyroxine and nonelevated thyroid-stimulating hormone-screening concentrations: results of the 20-year experience in the Northwest Regio...'
Publications
- Screening Preterm Infants for Congenital HypoThyroidism: Better the Second Time Around.
- Screening for congenital hypoThyroidism: A worldwide view of strategies.
- Congenital HypoThyroidism Caused by Excess Prenatal Maternal Iodine Ingestion.
- Approach to the diagnosis and treatment of neonatal hypoThyroidism.
- Increasing incidence of congenital hypoThyroidism: some answers, more questions.
- Congenital hypoThyroidism: delayed detection after birth and monitoring treatment in the first year of life.
- Is Thyroid inadequacy during gestation a risk factor for adverse pregnancy and developmental outcomes?
- Follow-up of newborns with elevated screening T4 concentrations.
- Circulating ghrelin levels are suppressed by meals and octreotide therapy in children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
- Effects of Growth hormone on pulmonary function, sleep quality, behavior, cognition, Growth velocity, body composition, and resting energy expenditure in Prader-Willi ...
- Serum ghrelin levels are inversely correlated with body mass index, age, and insulin concentrations in normal children and are markedly increased in Prader-Willi syndr...
- Initial treatment dose of L-thyroxine in congenital hypoThyroidism.
- Adolescent Thyroid disorders.
- Congenital renal anomalies associated with congenital Adrenal hyperplasia.
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes in congenital hypoThyroidism: comparison of initial T4 dose and time to reach target T4 and TSH.
- Screening for congenital hypoThyroidism: results of screening one million North American infants.
- Septo-optic dysplasia and maternal age.
- Neonatal hypoThyroidism detected by the Northwest Regional Screening Program.
- Reversible hypoThyroidism in growth hormone-deficient children treated with human growth hormone.
- Sexual precocity with hypothalamic Hypopituitarism.
- Hypoglycemia during testing for Growth hormone deficiency.
- Transient neonatal hypoThyroidism detected by newborn screening program.
- Pubertal gynecomastia and transient elevation of serum estradiol level.
- Thyroiditis and acquired hypoThyroidism.
- Human Growth hormone. Who is a candidate for treatment?
- Constitutional delay of Growth: expected versus final adult height.
- Thyroid function in children with chronic renal failure.
- Thyroid function of infants born to mothers with Graves disease.
- Massive levothyroxine ingestion. Conservative management.
- Puberty in the Syndrome of septo-optic dysplasia.
- Comparison of Growth hormone binding and metabolic response in rat adipocytes of epididymal, subcutaneous, and retroperitoneal origin.
- Diminished Thyroid-stimulating hormone secretion associated with neonatal thyrotoxicosis.
- Hypoglycemia of infancy and childhood.
- Diagnosis and treatment of hypoThyroidism in children.
- Is Angelman Syndrome an alternate result of del(15)(q11q13)?
- Detection of congenital hypopituitary hypoThyroidism: ten-year experience in the Northwest Regional Screening Program.
- Screening for congenital hypoThyroidism with specimen collection at two time periods: results of the Northwest Regional Screening Program.
- Primary hypoThyroidism, empty sella, and hypopituitarism.
- Effect of growth hormone replacement on development of hypoThyroidism and hyperlipidemia.
- Idiopathic hypoglycemia in infancy. Surgical management.
- Serum 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone, progesterone, estradiol, and testosterone in the diagnosis and management of congenital Adrenal hyperplasia.
- Plasma adrenocorticotrophic hormone in congenital Adrenal hyperplasia. Importance in long-term management.
- Evolving Hypopituitarism in children with central nervous system lesions.
- Growth hormone assessment by radioreceptor and radioimmunoassay. Radioreceptor assay and radioimmunoassay comparisons.
- Newborn screening for congenital hypoThyroidism.
- A pilot newborn screening for congenital Adrenal hyperplasia in Alaska.
- Amino acids as substrates in children with Growth hormone deficiency and hypoglycemia.
- Variation in pituitary-gonadal function in two adolescent boys with 46XX male Syndrome.
- Changes in insulin-like Growth factor-I (IGF-I), IGF-binding protein-3, Growth hormone (GH)-binding protein, erythrocyte IGF-I receptors, and Growth rate during GH tre...
- Diagnostic controversy: the diagnosis of childhood Growth hormone deficiency revisited.
- Activating mutation in the stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding protein in an infant with Cushing's syndrome and nodular Adrenal hyperplasia.
- Hypothalamic pituitary Adrenal function in the extremely low birth weight infant.
- Thyroxine-binding globulin Deficiency detected by newborn screening.
- Pediatric endocrinology.
- Physician and clinic charges for diagnosing Growth hormone deficiency.
- Sponastrime dysplasia: five new cases and review of nine previously published cases.
- Adult height in Growth hormone (GH)-deficient children treated with biosynthetic GH. The Genentech Growth Study Group.
- Corticosteroid binding globulin, total serum cortisol, and stress in extremely low-birth-weight infants.
- Variability of plasma cortisol levels in extremely low birth weight infants.
- Follow-up of newborns with low thyroxine and nonelevated Thyroid-stimulating hormone-screening concentrations: results of the 20-year experience in the Northwest Regio...
- Thyroid function in the preterm infant.
- Severe virilization in a girl with a steroid cell tumor of the ovary.
- Congenital hypoThyroidism: etiologies, diagnosis, and management.
- Growth hormone use in transitioning patients--clinician and payer concerns.
- Distal arthrogryposis: a new Type with distinct facial appearance and absent teeth.
- Safety of medications and hormones used in the treatment of pediatric Thyroid disorders.
- Thyroid hormone in hypopituitarism, Graves'' disease, congenital hypoThyroidism, and maternal Thyroid disease during pregnancy.
- How should we be treating children with congenital hypoThyroidism?
- Pediatric Thyroid testing issues.
- Should the levothyroxine starting dose be tailored to disease severity in neonates with congenital hypoThyroidism?
- Differential presentation for children with autoimmune Thyroiditis discovered because of symptom development or screening.
- Patient information page from the hormone foundation. Congenital hypoThyroidism.
- Fetal and neonatal Thyroid function: review and summary of significant new findings.
- Newborn screening strategies for congenital hypoThyroidism: an update.
- 2004 where do we go from here?--Summary of working group discussions on Thyroid function and gestational outcomes.
- Androgen replacement in adolescents and young women with Hypopituitarism.
- Predictors of glucose control in children and adolescents with type 1 Diabetes mellitus.
- A novel presentation of familial glucocorticoid Deficiency (FGD) and current literature review.
- Identification of a familial hyperinsulinism-causing mutation in the sulfonylurea receptor 1 that prevents normal trafficking and function of KATP channels.
Schools
University of California At Los Angeles
University Of California Los Angeles
Conditions Treated
- Abnormal Thyroid
- Adrenal Insufficiency
- Adrenogenital Disorders
- Calcium Metabolism Disorders
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Visiting Professor
- Department of Pediatrics 2014 Kaplan Lecture
- Krishna Saxena Endocrine Lecture
- Visting Professor
- Recognized as one of "The Best Doctors in America"
- Fogarty Senior International Fellowship
- Joseph B. Bilderback Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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