Overview
Dr. Yasmin Akhtar is a Clinical Associate of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the department of Pediatric Endocrinology. Dr. Akhtar completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University Chicago. She went to medical school at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at Rush Medical Center in Chicago. She worked as a general pediatrician at a FQHC in Pittsburgh for 1 year then moved to Baltimore in 2014 where she completed her pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. After fellowship, she spent a year working for Kaiser Permanente as a general pediatrician and also caring for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and endocrine diagnoses. Dr Akhtar’s clinical activities include both diabetes and pediatric endocrinology.
Dr. Akhtar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypogonadism. Her top areas of expertise are Short Stature (Growth Disorders), Precocious Puberty, Familial Short Stature (FSS), and Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS).
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Locations
10700 Charter Drive, Suite 140, Suite 140, Columbia, MD 21044
200 North Wolfe Street, Building 1, Baltimore, MD 21287
1708 West Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Akhtar has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Debra Counts is a Pediatric Endocrinologist and an Endocrinologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Counts is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypogonadism. Her top areas of expertise are Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS), Short Stature (Growth Disorders), Klinefelter Syndrome, and Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency. Dr. Counts is currently accepting new patients.
Neha Vyas is a Pediatric Endocrinologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Vyas is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypogonadism. Her top areas of expertise are Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), Short Stature (Growth Disorders), Precocious Puberty, and Familial Short Stature (FSS).
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Dr. Malinda Wu is a pediatric endocrinologist seeing patients at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She specializes in a wide range of pediatric endocrine conditions including metabolic bone disease, pediatric osteoporosis and cystic fibrosis endocrinopathies. Dr. Wu received her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. She completed pediatrics residency at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and her pediatric endocrine fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She received her Master of Science in Clinical Research from Emory University (2021). Dr. Wu has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins since 2021. Dr. Wu’s research interests are in metabolic bone disease and the health of women with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Wu’s current research is focused on women with cystic fibrosis and how estrogen supplementation may impact their health. She has received grant funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. Wu is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypogonadism. Her top areas of expertise are Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Hypogonadism, Malnutrition, Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
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- Experienced
- Addison's DiseaseDr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Addison's Disease.
- Familial Short Stature (FSS)Dr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Familial Short Stature (FSS).
- Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD)Dr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD).
- HypogonadismDr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Hypogonadism.
- Hypogonadotropic HypogonadismDr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism.
- Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS)Dr. Akhtar isExperienced. Learn about Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS).