Endocrinology
Catherine Pihoker, MD
Chief of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Seattle Children's Hospital
Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, UW School of Medicine
Dr. Catherine Pihoker joined Seattle Children's Hospital in 1997. Her clinical focus is inpatient and outpatient attending for endocrinology and diabetes. Her main research interests include investigating factors that predict the clinical course of diabetes, diabetes typology and improving outcomes of children with diabetes. Dr. Pihoker is also interested in the impact on children of being overweight and living sedentary lifestyles, and she is involved in proposals studying the quality of life and metabolic measures in the general population as well as in cancer survivors. Other research interests include endocrine dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors and hypothalamic-pituitary function in children with tumors in the pituitary region. The studies Dr. Pihoker has been involved with include the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth, TrialNet and the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium.
Board Certified: Pediatric Endocrinology
Medical School: Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson; University, Philadelphia
Residency: Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
Fellowship: Duke University Medical Center, Durham
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