Our experienced teams of pediatric endocrinologists, nurses, social workers and psychologists bring their disease-specific expertise to the care of children with a broad range of endocrinology disorders.
Oct 26, 2023
Nurse practitioner Emily Wilkinson, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-PC, is the newest member of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center team. Get to know Emily. [short teaser] Meet nurse practitioner Emily Wilkinson, MSN, who will see children in CHOP’s Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center.
Jun 21, 2023
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is pleased to have once again been named one of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. We are proud to continue to be at the top of this list and congratulate our peer hospitals who join us in this year’s rankings.
Jun 12, 2023
CHOP researchers have found that self-esteem in short youth is associated with coping skills and how supported they feel and not the degree of their short stature.
Jan 4, 2023
Read this case study about integrating precision medicine into the standard of care for children with thyroid cancer.
Dec 7, 2022
When radioactive iodine is spared, there is no decrease in the likelihood of remission.
Nov 22, 2022
New cases of type 2 diabetes, when the body can’t use or make enough insulin, soared in kids during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn the signs and how CHOP can help!
Sep 6, 2022
CHOP researchers have used advanced 3D mapping techniques to identify genetic variants and corresponding target genes in the pancreas that are implicated in type 2 diabetes.
Jul 20, 2022
Much progress has been made over the last 25 years when it comes to identifying the genetic mutation that is causing a child’s congenital hyperinsulinism (HI).
Jul 20, 2022
If Leela Morrow, PsyD, the psychologist for the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, gives your child a referral for a neuropsychology evaluation it’s nothing to be afraid of. In fact, it may give your child a roadmap to success.
Jul 20, 2022
Many children with hyperinsulinism (HI) have feeding aversion — as many as 60%. The use of tube feedings, and possibly continuous dextrose, to control their blood sugar, among other things (effect of medications, the appetite suppressing effects of insulin, etc.), may exacerbate their aversion to eating by mouth.