Perrin C. White, MD
- Pediatric Endocrinologist, Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Division Director at Children's Health
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Perrin White M.D., is the director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children's Health℠, which diagnoses and treats children with conditions of the major endocrine glands, such as the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, gonads and endocrine pancreas. He is also a Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. White is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Endocrinology. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and served as a pediatric resident at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also completed a research fellowship in molecular biology at Rockefeller University Hospital.
He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Pediatric Research and The Endocrine Society. He also holds the Audrey Newman Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Endocrinology at UT Southwestern, with research interests in hormonal conditions and diabetes in children.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Harvard Medical School (1976)
- Residency
- John Hopkins Hospital (1978), Pediatrics
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Endocrinology
Conditions Treated
- 22q deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome VCFS)
- Acromegaly (gigantism)
- Addisons disease (hypocortisolism)
- Adrenal carcinomas
- Adrenal disorders
- Adrenal mass
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- Constitutional growth delay
- Cushing's syndrome
- Delayed puberty
- Diabetic detoacidosis (DKA)
- Empty sella syndrome
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC)
- Graves' disease
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
- Hypogonadism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Joint disorders and joint pain in children
- Kallmann syndrome (KS)
- Klinefelter syndrome (KS)
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)
- Mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS)
- Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC)
- Multinodular goiter (MNG)
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
- Parathyroid Mass
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pituitary lesions
- Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
- Pre-diabetes
- Precocious puberty (early puberty)
- Septo-optic dysplasia
- Sexual development
- Short stature
- Thyroid carcinoma (cancer)
- Thyroid disorders
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease)
- Turner syndrome (TS)
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
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