Perrin C. White, MD
- Pediatric Endocrinologist, Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Division Director at Children's Health
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (1)
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)
- Adolescent delayed puberty
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Joint disorders and joint pain in children
- Klinefelter syndrome (KS)
- McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS)
- Pediatric acromegaly (gigantism)
- Pediatric Addisons disease (hypocortisolism)
- Pediatric adrenal carcinomas
- Pediatric adrenal disorders
- Pediatric adrenal mass
- Pediatric adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Pediatric anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Pediatric and adolescent Turner syndrome (TS)
- Pediatric androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
- Pediatric autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
- Pediatric constitutional growth delay
- Pediatric Cushing's syndrome
- Pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Pediatric empty sella syndrome
- Pediatric follicular thyroid cancer (FTC)
- Pediatric Graves' disease
- Pediatric growth hormone deficiency
- Pediatric hyperaldosteronism
- Pediatric hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
- Pediatric hyperparathyroidism
- Pediatric hyperthyroidism
- Pediatric hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
- Pediatric hypogonadism
- Pediatric hypoparathyroidism
- Pediatric hypothyroidism
- Pediatric Kallmann syndrome (KS)
- Pediatric Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)
- Pediatric mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- Pediatric medullary thyroid cancer (MTC)
- Pediatric multinodular goiter (MNG)
- Pediatric multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Pediatric papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
- Pediatric parathyroid mass
- Pediatric pheochromocytoma
- Pediatric pituitary lesions
- Pediatric Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
- Pediatric pre-diabetes
- Pediatric short stature
- Pediatric thyroid carcinoma (cancer)
- Pediatric thyroid disorders
- Pediatric thyroid nodules
- Pediatric thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease)
- Pediatric type 1 diabetes
- Pediatric type 2 diabetes
- Precocious puberty (early puberty) in children
- Septo-optic dysplasia in children
- Sexual development in children
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Locations
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