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PAUL A. FITZGERALD, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and Attending Physician, University of California, San Francisco

CONTACT

paul.fitzgerald@ucsf.edu
(415) 665-1136 (voice)
(415) 665-8500 (fax)

Box 1222, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1222

additional websites:

Fitzgerald Practice Website

EDUCATION

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, B.A., 1964-1968, Pre-medical
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, M.D., 1968-1972, Medicine
Presbyterian Medical Center and the Hospitals of the University of Colorado, Medical Residency, 1972-1975 Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco Fellowship, 1976-1978, Endocrinology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1973-1984

Emergency Medicine

1978-1979

Instructor in Medicine and Attending Physician, University of California, San Francisco

1979-2004

Endocrinology Clinical Practice, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco

1979-1987

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician, University of California, San Francisco

1980-1983

Attending Physician, San Francisco Public Health Service Hospital

1981-1983

President, Marin County Chapter, American Diabetes Association and Member, Northern California Affiliate, American Diabetes Association

1987-1998

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician, University of California, San Francisco

1991-1993

Executive Medical Board, University of California, San Francisco

1992-1995

National Executive Council, The Endocrine Society

1997-2004

Clinical Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician, University of California, San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

1976

Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, in Internal Medicine

1979

Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, in Endocrinology & Metabolism

1990

Charlotte Baer Memorial Clinical Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to UCSF - University of California, San Francisco

1996

The Best Doctors in America. Pacific Region 1996-1997. Aiken, South Carolina: Woodward/White

1998

Areas Outstanding Physician Specialists, in Bay Area Consumer's Checkbook

1999

Top Docs, in San Francisco Magazine

2001

Top 500 Doctors, in San Francisco Magazine

2001

America's Top Doctors 2001. A Castle Connolly Guide. New York, NY: Castle Connolly Medical Ltd

2003

Best Doctors in the Bay Area. In San Francisco Magazine

2003

America's Top Doctors 2003. A Castle Connolly Guide. New York, NY: Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

2004

Americas Top Doctors 2004. A Castle Connolly Guide. New York, N.Y. Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Tyrrell JB, Brooks RM, Fitzgerald PA, Cofoid PB, Forsham PH, and Wilson CB: Cushing's disease: Selective transsphenoidal resection of pituitary microadenomas. N. Engl. J. Med. 298:753-758, 1978.

Findling JW, Tyrrell JB, Aron DC, Fitzgerald PA, Wilson CB, and Forsham PH: Silent pituitary apoplexy: subclinical infarction of an ACTH-producing pituitary adenoma. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 52:95-97, 1981.

Fitzgerald PA, Aron DC, Findling JW, Brooks RM, Wilson CB, Forsham PH, and Tyrrell JB: Cushing's disease: transient secondary adrenal insufficiency after selective removal of pituitary microadenomas; evidence for a pituitary origin. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 54:413-422, 1982.

Fitzgerald PA: Handbook of Clinical Endocrinology (editor). Greenbrae, CA: Jones Medical Publications, 1986 and 1992.

Cheitlin RA, Westphal M, Cabrera CM, Fujii DK, Snyder J, Fitzgerald PA: Cushing's syndrome due to bilateral adrenal macronodular hyperplasia and undetectable ACTH: cell culture of adenoma cells on extracellular matrix. Hormone Research 29:162-167, 1988.

Deftos LJ, O'Connor Dt, Wilson CB, Fitzgerald PA: Pituitary tumors secrete chromogranin A. Journal Clin. Endocrin. Metab. 68:869, 1989.

Loh KC, Fitzgerald PA, Matthay, K, Yeo PPB, Price DC: The treatment of malignant pheochromocytoma with 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG). A comprehensive review of 116 reported cases. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 20: 648-658, 1997.

Loh KC, Lo JC, Zaloudec CJ, Fitzgerald PA: Occult virilizing ovarian tumors in postmenopausal women: problems in evaluation and reference to a case. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, 27:712-716, 1998.

Lo JC, Schwitzgebel VM, Tyrrell JB, Fitzgerald PA, Kaplan SL, Conte FA, Grumbach MM: Normal female infants born of mothers with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 84:930-936, 1999.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2000 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) New York, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Fitzgerald PA: Hypothalamic and Pituitary Hormones. In Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. (Katzung B. ed) New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2001 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) New York, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Li ML, Fitzgerald PA, Price DR, Norton JA.: Iatrogenic pheochromocytomatosis: a previously unreported result of laparasopic adrenalectomy. Surgery 130:1072-1077, 2001.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2002 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) New York, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Bassiri HG, Wilson CB, Fishman IB, Fitzgerald PA: Acromegaly caused by a GH and PRL Secreting Tumor Confined to the Clivus Bone: Case Report. Presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society , 6/19/02 San Francisco, California.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2003 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) New York, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Fitzgerald PA: Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma. In ACS Endocrine Tumors (Clark OH, Duh QY, Perrier N, and Jahan T, eds.) Hamilton, On, Canada, 2003.

Fitzgerald PA and Goldfien A: the Adrenal Medulla. In Basic and Clinical Endocrinology. (Greenspan F. and Gardner D., eds.) New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Rose B, Matthay K, Price D, Huberty J, Klencke B, Norton J, Fitzgerald PA: High-dose 131I- Metaiodobenzylguanidine therapy for 12 patients with malignant pheochromocytoma. Cancer 98:239-248, 2003.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2004 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) NewYork, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Fitzgerald PA: Hypothalamic & Pituitary Hormones. In Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. (Katzung B. ed) , New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Disorders. In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2005 (Tierney, LM Jr., et al., eds) NewYork, NY: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Fitzgerald PA: Endocrine Sections. In 2005 Current Consult Medicine. (Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, eds) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill 2005

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