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Rebecca P. Green, MD, PhD
Abby Hollander, MD
Dr. Hollander joined the faculty of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology in 1992. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics on the Clinical Track. Her clinical interests cover all aspects of Pediatric Endocrinology, including growth disorders, thyroid disorders, pubertal disorders, adrenal disease, and diabetes. She participates as a member of the Diabetes Team of St. Louis Children's Hospital, which works to improve delivery of care to families coping with diabetes mellitus, and as a member of the Neuro-Oncology Team, a multi-disciplinary group which works to provide comprehensive care to patients with brain tumors.

Dr. Hollander is currently involved in several clinical research projects. She presented preliminary findings of a study to evaluate the clinical importance of a specific molecular variant of growth hormone in short children at the annual Investigator's meeting of the National Cooperative Growth Study. She has been a primary investigator in exciting industry-sponsored multicenter studies which have looked at new therapies in diabetes mellitus and growth hormone deficiency. She has a current interest in evaluating the safety and efficacy of insulin pumps in children.

Dr. Hollander is a member of the Board of Directors of the local chapter of the American Diabetes Association, and has been a member of the Camp Committee and Youth Group since 1990. She has been a Diabetes Camp Physician since 1990, and currently co-chairs the camp committee.

Dr. Hollander spent her formative years in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Cornell University (1982) and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1986). Her pediatric residency (1986-1989) was completed at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois (Northwestern University). She is a graduate of the Fellowship Program in Pediatric Endocrinology at St. Louis Children's Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine (1989-1992). She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology. She is a member of the American Diabetes Association, The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Lawson Wilkin Pediatric Endocrine Society.
Paul Hruz, MD, PhD
Bess A. Marshall, MD
Dr. Marshall joined the faculty of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1993 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.

Dr. Marshall is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and attended Vanderbilt University, where she received a B.S. in Mathematics from the College of Arts and Science in 1982 and an MD Degree from the School of Medicine in 1986. She served an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Texas, Southwestern Health Sciences Center in Dallas, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, and Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas from 1987-1990. From 1990-1993 she was a fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism at Washington University. She joined the faculty at Washington University in 1993.

Dr. Marshall's research interests include intermediary carbohydrate metabolism, glucose transporter structure and function, metabolic engineering to alter insulin resistance, and metabolic control of insulin secretion. She has been funded by a National Institutes of Health Clinician-Investigator Development award, the Hardison Family Foundation and has been a scholar of the Child Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology at Washington University. Currently, she is primarily involved in patient care and teaching.

Dr. Marshall's clinical interests include all aspects of endocrinology and metabolism. She is a member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the International Diabetes Federation, the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society, and is a charter member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology.
Neil White, MD, CDE
Dr. White is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics,a native of New York and was trained in chemistry at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. White attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, graduating in 1975. He did his post-graduate pediatric and pediatric endocrinology training at St. Louis Children's Hospital and then served as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism from 1980-1987. From 1987 to 1991, he served as Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, and as Associate Director of the Clinical Implementation Core of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center. Dr. White returned to Washington University in 1991 and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is also Director of the Pediatric Diabetes Registry of the Washington University Diabetes Research and Training Center, and Associate Director (with responsibilities for the pediatric unit) of the Washington University General Clinical Research Center. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology, and is a Certified Diabetes Educator.

Over the last 15 years, Dr. White's research interests have included active participation as a co-investigator and subsequently co-principal investigator of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) both at Washington University and the University of Michigan. He has had an ongoing interest in the methods of intensive therapy in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and the risk of hypoglycemia as part of this therapy. He has recently completed a trial to determine whether intensive diabetes therapy initiated at the time of diagnosis can prevent or slow the progression of beta cell loss in newly-diagnosed diabetic children and is currently conducting a randomized, controlled trial of intensive diabetes therapy in children; the aim of the current study is to determine factors that predict success or failure of intensive diabetes therapy in children. He is also a participant in the Diabetes Prevention Trial Type 1 (DPT 1) and in multiple trials of psychosocial interventions in diabetic teenagers.

Dr. White is a member of multiple professional societies including the Professional Section of the American Diabetes Association, the American Federation for Clinical Research, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, the Endocrine Society, the International Diabetes Federation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. He has had a longstanding involvement with the American Diabetes Association at the local, state, regional and national level and has served on many boards and committees. These include his involvement as a member of the Research Grant Review Panel, the Scientific Sessions Planning Committee, and the Camp Task Force of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and as Program Chairman and subsequently Chairman of the Council on Diabetes in Youth of the ADA. Dr. White has also had a 17-year involvement in the organization and operation of camps for diabetic children and was the recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Diabetes and Camping of the American Diabetes Association in 1998.

Dr. White is supported largely by research grants which currently include an NIH and a JDF grant on intensive therapy for children with IDDM. He is also supported by the General Clinical Research Center grant, the Diabetes Research and Training Center, and various grants from pharmaceutical companies.
Tracey Hartmann, MSW, LCSW, social worker
Irene Korlin, MSW, LCSW, social worker

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