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.
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.
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Areas of Expertise
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- 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).