Denise Gruccio, DNP, MSN, BSN, CRNP, PNP-BC

Board Certification

Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PPCNP-BC)
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care (CPNP-PC)

Undergraduate Degree

BSN - Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

Graduate Degree

DNP - Villanova University, Villanova, PA
MSN - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Papers

2017

Gruccio D, Bamba V. Turner syndrome: Care of the Patient form Birth to Late Adolescence. Pediatr Endocrinol Rev. 2017 Jun;14(Suppl 2):454-461.

2013

Mostoufi-Moab S, Isaacoff EJ, Spiegel D, Gruccio D, Ginsberg JP, Hobbie W, Shults J, Leonard MB.  Childhood cancer survivors exposed to total body irradiation are at significant risk for slipped capital femoral epiphysis during recombinant growth hormone therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Nov;60(11):1766-71. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24667. Epub 2013 Jul 2.

Stanescu, D, Gruccio, D. 50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: The XO Syndrome: A Study of the Different Phenotype in 25 Patients. Journal of Pediatrics  1044, 2013.

2011

Hobbie Wendy L, Moab Sogol Mostoufi-, Carlson Claire A, Gruccio Denise, Ginsberg Jill P. Prevalence of advanced bone age in a cohort of patients who received cis-retinoic acid for high-risk neuroblastoma.. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 56(3): 474-6, 2011.

2005

Lipman, T PhD, CRNP,FAAN, Gruccio, D MSN, CRNP. Pediatric Growth Monitoring. Advance For Nurses  25: 21-23, 2005.

2000

Gruccio, D MSN, CRNP, Steinkrauss, L MSN, CRNP.Challenges of Decision Making for Families of Children with Single or Multiple Chronic Conditions. Nurse Practitioner Forum 11: 15-19, 2000.

1997

Wang E, Drummond DS, Dormans JP, Moshang T, Gruccio D. Scoliosis in patients treated with growth hormone. J Ped Orthopedics  17: 708-711, 1997.

1996

Alter C, Thornton P, Willi S, Levitt-Katz L, Gruccio D, Moshang T Jr. Growth following bone marrow transplantation in acute myelogenous leukemia as compared to acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Ped Endo Metab  9:51-57, 1996.

Satin-Smith M, Levitt-Katz L, Thornton P, Gruccio D, Moshang T Jr. Arm span measurements evaluating response to growth hormone therapy in children with meningomyelocoel and growth hormone deficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 81:1654-1656, 1996.

1993

Moshang T Jr., Gruccio D, Camargo A and Goldwein J. Long term growth response to growth hormone treatment (GH) in growth hormone deficient medulloblastoma (PNET) survivors Ped Res.33 (Supp): 50,1993.

Olshan JS, Willi, SM, Gruccio D and Moshang T Jr. Growth hormone function and treatment following bone marrow transplant for neuroblastoma. Bone Marrow Transplantation 12: 381-385, 1993.

1992

Thornton P, Alter C, Olshan J, Gruccio D and Moshang T Jr. Diagnosis of partial ACTH deficiency using IRMA ACTH in conjunction with the short metyrapone test. Pediatric Research; 31, 1992.

1991

Moshang T Jr., Gruccio D, Alter C, Thornton P. Non- classical 3 beta-hydroxysteriod dehydrogenase (HSD) deficiency in male child. Pediatric Research. 29: 82A, 1991.

Books

Chapters

2013

Gruccio, D. Late to Diagnosis: Turner Syndrome. Children’s Doctor: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Spring, 2013.

2009

Gruccio, D. The Child with Normal Variant Short Stature: When Treatment is not indicated. Evolving Paradigms in the Clinical Diagnosis and Treatments of Short Stature. August, 2009.

2008

Gruccio, D. Working with Families of Children with Short Stature. Evolving Paradigms in the Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Short Stature. August, 2008.

1996

Gruccio D. Endocrine Overview: Short stature, Delayed Puberty and Precocious Puberty. In Fox; Primary Care of Children. St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby, 1996.

Posters and Presentations

2017

Gruccio D. Development and Implementation of a Clinical Practice Guideline for Feminization in Girls with Turner Syndrome, Eastern Nursing Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. May, 2017.

Invited Lectures

2017

Gruccio D. Development and Implementation of a Clinical Practice Guideline for Feminization in Girls with Turner Syndrome, Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Society, Minneapolis, MN. April, 2017.