About Lynne Levitsky, MD
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Adrenal disorders
- Cushing's disease
- Diabetes
- Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
- Disorders of sexual differentiation
- Endocrinology
- Growth disorders
- Hypoglycemia
- Neuroendocrinology
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Thyroid and adrenal disorders
- Thyroid disorders
- Turner's syndrome
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Locations
Mass General for Children: Pediatric Endocrine Program and Diabetes Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2909
Medical Education
- MD, Yale University School of Medicine
- Fellowship, University of Maryland
American Board Certifications
- Pediatric Endocrinology, American Board of Pediatrics
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
My laboratory was the first to describe the use of alternative substrates to glucose by the neonatal primate brain, and to document gluconeogenesis in fetal life. We now have worked on modulating transcription factor function in the pancreatic beta cell in order to reconstruct the beta cell in other cell types. We developed a “superpromoter” transcription factor which enhances action in cell types cognate with beta cells.
My major clinical research work focuses on the continuation of the TODAY study, an NIH-funded trial of treatments for type 2 diabetes in children and Adolescents. We have demonstrated that the “fat paradox”, the protective effect of obesity on complications of diabetes, extends to retinopathy in the young. The mechanism of this effect is presently being examined. The patients in this trial are being followed into adulthood so that the natural history of type 2 diabetes in young people can be elucidated. We also will be participating in studies of long-acting growth hormone products in children with growth hormone deficiency. Learn more about research at the Pediatric Endocrine Program and Diabetes Center.
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