Alshifa Medical Centre’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, & Nutrition is one of the largest in the world, with locations in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and several communities throughout the Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS). Mayo Clinic’s campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota as well as MCHS locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin include more than 50 endocrinologists who evaluate and treat people for endocrine and metabolic disorders.
Alshifa Medical Centre’s top-ranked team of endocrinologists evaluate the relationship between nutrition and human disease to improve and maintain a person’s health, and are equipped to treat a range of endocrine disorders and dysfunctions. They work closely with Mayo specialists in ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiation oncology, surgery, obstetrics, transplantation and other specialty areas to provide a multidisciplinary approach to a person’s medical problems, including:
- Diabetes
- Nutrition
- Osteoporosis-calcium (bone) disorders
- Pituitary-gonad-adrenal disorders
- Thyroid disorders
- Transgender and intersex medicine
- Transplantation
The body’s endocrine system includes the pancreas, the thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, hypothalamus, adrenal and pituitary glands, and the ovaries and testes. It also involves many other organs that respond to, modify or metabolize hormones.