Overview
Alok Bhutada is a Neonatologist and a Pediatrics provider in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Bhutada is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Neonatal Hypothyroidism. His top areas of expertise are Neonatal Hypothyroidism, Premature Infant, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, and Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 22 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Neonatal Hypothyroidism.
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Clinical Research
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CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
Uma Reddy is a Neonatologist and an Obstetrics and Gynecologist in New York, New York. Dr. Reddy is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Neonatal Hypothyroidism. Her top areas of expertise are Gestational Diabetes, Newborn Transient Tachypnea, Placental Insufficiency, High Blood Pressure in Infants, and Hysterectomy.
ColumbiaDoctors - Midtown
Dr. Ronald Wapner is the Director of Reproductive Genetics and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Prior to Columbia University, Dr. Wapner was a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine and taught at Thomas Jefferson University for 22 years where he also served as the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine. Dr. Wapner is an internationally known physician and researcher specializing in reproductive genetics. He pioneered the development of chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and multi-fetal reduction. He has authored or co-authored over 450 publications and he has been an active investigator in the area of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM). Dr. Wapner is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Neonatal Hypothyroidism. His top areas of expertise are Preeclampsia, High Blood Pressure in Infants, Gestational Diabetes, Chromosome 13q Duplication, and Hysterectomy.
CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital And Vanderbilt Clinic
Dr. Oberfield, a professor of pediatrics, has been the director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Columbia University Irving Medical Center since 2004. Throughout her career, Dr. Oberfield has been dedicated to educating the next generation of pediatric endocrinology sub-specialists. She was for many years director of the fellowship training program in pediatric endocrinology, and is currently associate program director. Since 2005 she has been the principal investigator of a T32 training grant in pediatric endocrinology from the NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, one of only a handful of such programs in the country. Since 1998, she has mentored more than 35 fellows and more than 30 pre-doctoral students including Endocrine Society, DERC, and Doris Duke summer fellows.From 2021-2022 Dr. Oberfield served as president of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES), an international organization of more than 1,300 members, that provides resources for healthcare professionals and trainees and affords educational support for patients and families affected by disorders of the thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary glands; growth disturbances; and conditions of bone metabolism and diabetes. Her priorities as president, she says, were “to maintain and expand the relevance of bench, translational and clinical researcher as well as the importance of the practicing pediatric endocrinologist, even in an era when delivery of health care and research related to children and adolescents is being dramatically eroded.”Dr. Oberfield has been engaged in patient-oriented research for her entire career, with a particular focus on disorders of adrenal hormone synthesis, adrenarche, and PCOS. She has conducted studies of body composition in children and continues to be involved in multiple studies of childhood obesity.Her clinical research has centered around the developmental/pediatric endocrinology, specifically the HPA axis which intimately affects metabolic function, interacting with adiposity, including studies of body composition in adrenarche and PCOS. She has been the author or co-author of more than 225 articles, multiple chapters and reviews, and is an invited speaker at national and international meetings, including the 2012 NIH-sponsored Evidence Based Methodology Workshop on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. She is currently an editor for the Journal of Pediatrics and is an associate editor for Hormone Research in Pediatrics. She continues to be listed in Castle Connelly’s “America’s Top Doctors” and NY Magazine’s “Best Doctors."". Dr. Oberfield is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Neonatal Hypothyroidism. Her top areas of expertise are Intersex, Precocious Puberty, Obesity, Ovarian Overproduction of Androgens, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Experienced
- Congenital AthymiaDr. Bhutada isExperienced. Learn about Congenital Athymia.
- Infant Respiratory Distress SyndromeDr. Bhutada isExperienced. Learn about Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn
- Necrotizing EnterocolitisDr. Bhutada isExperienced. Learn about Necrotizing Enterocolitis.
- Neonatal HypothyroidismDr. Bhutada isExperienced. Learn about Neonatal Hypothyroidism.
- OmphaloceleDr. Bhutada isExperienced. Learn about Omphalocele.

