Catherine Dinauer, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)Cards
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Biography
Catherine Dinauer, MD is a Pediatric Endocrinologist whose primary focus is care of children with thyroid disorders. She earned her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and her medical degree at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Dr. Dinauer completed Pediatric residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and Pediatric Endocrinology fellowship through the National Capitol Area Pediatric Consortium at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. Following her training, Dr. Dinauer served as an Attending in Pediatric Endocrinology at Walter Reed, worked in research administration as Assistant Chief of the Department of Clinical Investigation, and was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at USUHS. Since 2006, her clinical practice has focused on pediatric thyroid disorders, with particular interest in Graves disease, thyroid nodules and pediatric thyroid cancer. She was a member of the American Thyroid Association committee which published guidelines in 2015 on the management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer in children and is a member of the committee established in 2020 to revise the guidelines.
Appointments
Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
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Education & Training
- Fellow
- Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (1998)
- Resident
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1994)
- MD
- University of Vermont, College of Medicine (1991)
- AB
- Dartmouth College, Psychology modified with Education (1987)
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Clinical Care
Overview
Catherine Dinauer, MD, is a pediatric endocrinologist who cares for patients from newborns to young adults. She specializes in pediatric thyroid disorders, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules, and thyroid cancer, as well as general pediatric endocrinology disorders such as pituitary, adrenal, and growth problems.
“I love getting to know my patients and their families over time, and watching children with complicated disorders grow up and become healthy young adults,” says Dr. Dinauer. “Endocrinology involves helping children reach their full potential in the setting of chronic or underlying disease processes, and I enjoy the intellectual challenge involved in that. It’s like solving a puzzle, putting together symptoms, growth patterns, the physical exam, and lab and imaging findings to make a diagnosis.”
Dr. Dinauer says Yale offers children with endocrine disorders the best of all worlds, providing them with a multidisciplinary team that includes pediatric and endocrine surgeons, radiologists (with expertise in pediatrics, ultrasonography, and nuclear medicine), and pediatric and endocrine pathologists.
Before joining Yale Medicine, Dr. Dinauer was an attending physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and assistant chief of the department of clinical investigation at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. She was a co-author on the American Thyroid Association’s Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer, published in 2015.
Clinical Specialties
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Thyroid Disease
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