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| Appointments: | (504) 896-9441 | | Office Hours: | 8 am to 4:30 pm
Monday through Friday | | Locations: | Children's Hospital, Main Campus
Children's Hospital, Metairie Center
Children's Hospital Outpatient Center of Baton Rouge
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Physicians:
Stuart Chalew, MD, Director
Michelle Genet, MD
Ricardo Gomez, MD
Dania L. Felipe Ramirez, MD
Sarah Stender, MD
Alfonso Vargas, MD |
The Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes provides state-of-the-art diagnostic evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with hormonal disorders. The faculty has particular interest and experience in disorders of growth and development as well as diabetes.
The endocrine faculty also has extensive expertise and experience in the diagnosis and therapy of disorders of puberty, hypoglycemia, genital abnormalities, bone mineral disorders, adrenal and thyroid abnormalities, and disorders of the anterior and posterior pituitary.
The staff also has a masters-level endocrine nurse coordinator who rounds out the endocrine team. The endocrine nurse coordinator arranges diagnostic procedures and provides educational support to patients and families in administration of endocrine therapies and home management.
The department maintains a specialized multidisciplinary team for comprehensive management of childhood diabetes. In addition to the endocrinologists, the team includes a masters-level CDE diabetes nurse educator, a CDE pediatric nutritionist, a pediatric psychologist, a pediatric exercise specialist and social worker. The team is dedicated to prevention of the long-term complications of diabetes and enhancing the quality of life for the patient and his/her family.
Management expertise includes, but is not limited to: diabetes growth disorders early or delayed puberty.
 | Stuart Chalew, MD
Director, Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School:
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
Special Interests:
Preventing diabetes complications, growth disorders |  | Michelle Genet, MD
Pediatrician, Children's Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School:
LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics, Certified Diabetes Educator
Special Interests:
Diabetes prevention and pediatric obesity
|  | Ricardo Gomez, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor in Clinical Pediatrics Division of Endocrinology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School:
Pontificia Univ Javeriana, Fac De Med, Bogata, Columbia
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Dania L. Felipe Ramirez, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital
Professional School:
Univ. Central del Caribe School of Medicine
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| Sarah
Stender, MD, FAAP, CDE
Pediatrician
and Adolescent Medicine Subspecialist, Children's Hospital
Director, "The
Healthy Lifestyle Program"*
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New
Orleans
Professional School:
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics
Subspecialty Training:
Adolescent Medicine, Diabetes
Special Interests:
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
Adolescent
Gynecology
Eating disorder detection and prevention in the above
populations
(For additional information, visit www.gnops.org/anti-obesitytoolkit.html)
|  | Alfonso Vargas, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School:
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogata, Columbia
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
Special Interests:
Type-1 diabetes |
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