Endocrinologist
Central Maine Medical Center · Lewiston, ME · 2 days ago
Full-time
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, diagnose, and manage patients with endocrine and metabolic disorders.
- Conduct comprehensive patient assessments, including medical histories, physical examinations, and diagnostic evaluations.
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
- Manage acute and chronic endocrine conditions in outpatient and inpatient settings as applicable.
- Order, interpret, and communicate laboratory, imaging, and diagnostic test results.
- Prescribe medications and monitor treatment effectiveness.
- Provide ongoing disease management and preventive care recommendations.
- Diagnose and manage Type 1, Type 2, and gestational diabetes.
- Oversee insulin therapy, insulin pump management, and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems.
- Address diabetes-related complications and coordinate multidisciplinary care.
- Educate patients on diabetes self-management, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle modification.
- Diagnose and treat thyroid disorders, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules, and thyroid cancer.
- Manage osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases.
- Evaluate and treat adrenal, pituitary, and parathyroid disorders.
- Assess and manage obesity and related metabolic conditions.
- Diagnose and treat reproductive and hormonal disorders, including hypogonadism and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
- Manage lipid disorders and metabolic syndrome when appropriate.
- Collaborate with primary care physicians, surgeons, oncologists, nephrologists, cardiologists, and other specialists.
- Supervise and provide clinical guidance to Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), nursing staff, and ancillary personnel as applicable.
- Participate in multidisciplinary care conferences and case reviews.
- Coordinate referrals and transitions of care.
Qualifications
- MD or DO degree, with completion of an accredited Endocrinology fellowship.
- Board Certified/Board Eligible in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.