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Photo of Paul A. Fitzgerald, MD  Paul A. Fitzgerald, MD

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology), UCSF

Contact

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(415) 665-1136 (voice)
(415) 665-8500 (fax) (fax)

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

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

Updated: December 20, 2011