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Adrian Dobs, MD, Endocrinology, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Endocrinology • Baltimore, MD

Diabetes, Gonad Disorders & Reproductive, Lipid Metabolism

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Reserch Network, Former Director, Johns Hopkins - SYSU (China) Collaboration, Director - Johns Hopkins Center to Reduce Cancer Disparities

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  • Office

    600 N. Wolfe Street
    Sheikh Zayed Tower Suite 328
    Baltimore, MD 21287
    Phone+1 410-955-9270
    Fax+1 410-367-2042
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Summary

  • Adrian Sandra Dobs, MD, MHS, is Professor of Medicine and Oncology and Director of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (JHCRN). Dr Dobs is also Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Reduction of Cancer Disparities of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Cancer. The JHCRN is a multi-institutional collaboration linking academic and community hospitals in the mid-Atlantic United States.

    Dr Dobs received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a medical degree from Albany Medical College, in New York, and completed an internship in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, New York. She held a fellowship in endocrinology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and earned a master in health sciences degree in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

    Dr Dobs is an investigator on several NIH-funded studies evaluating the relationship of sex hormones and cardiovascular risk. She lectures in the United States and internationally in these areas, as well as aging and testosterone therapy and testosterone and cardiovascular disease.

    With book chapters, monographs, and journal articles, as well as television and Web contributions, Dr Dobs has published extensively on topics that include sex hormones and its relationship to metabolic disorders. Journals publishing her research include the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, JAIDS, and Journal of Andrology. She co-chairs the International Registry for Hypogonadal Men.

    Dr Dobs is very active in mentoring medical students and postdoctoral fellows and was honored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award.

Education & Training

  • Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins UniversityM.H.S., Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 1990
  • Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, 1982 - 1984
  • Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)
    Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1978 - 1980
  • Albany Medical College
    Albany Medical CollegeClass of 1978
  • Cornell University
    Cornell UniversityB.S., Nutrition Sciences, 1973

Certifications & Licensure

  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2022 - Present
  • MD State Medical License
    MD State Medical License 1982 - 2024
  • NC State Medical License
    NC State Medical License 2020 - 2022
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
  • CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013-2014
  • Top Doctors:Baltimore Area Castle Connolly, 2012
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Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • To T or Not to T: Differences in Testosterone Use and Discontinuation by HIV Serostatus Among Men Who Have Sex with Men*  
    T T Brown, J E Lake, W S Post, A Dobs, HIV Medicine
  • Lipoprotein particle profile by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adolescents and young women with PCOS provides insights into their cardiovascular and metabo...  
    Dobs A, Remaley A, Stratakis AC, JCEM, 1/1/2015
  • Increases in duration of first highly active antiretroviral therapy over time (1996-2009) and associated factors in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study  
    Slama L, Li X, Brown T, Jacobson LP, Pialoux G, Macatangay B, Bolan RK, Phair J, Palella FJ Jr; Multicenter AIDS cohort Study (Dobs, AS), J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 1/1/2014
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease 
    Chapter: Nutritional Management of Diabetes. 
    Dobs ASEditors: Ross AC, Caballero B, Cousins RJ, Tucker KL, Ziegler TR.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MDEdition 11th,2012
  • Endocrine Clinics. 
    Chapter: Androgen effects on lipids. 
    Monroe A, Dobs ASEditors: Annabelle Rodriguex.2012
  • Medical Care of Cancer Patients. 
    Chapter: Hypogonadism and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Men with Cancers. 
    Lee C, Basaria S, Dobs ASEditors: Yeung S-C J, Escalante CP, Gagel RF.BC Decker, Shelton, CT2009
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Lectures

  • Hypogonadism: Sorting through the Controversies 
    2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/12/2019
  • NIDA Symposium on Metabolic Effects of Drug Use 
    Denver, CO - 1/1/2012
  • Clinical Research 
    Quong-Chou, China - 1/1/2012
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Other

  • Testosterone and Mortality: An Expert Interview with Adrian S. Dobs, MD MHS 
    Dobs AS, CME Activity
    http://cme.medscape.com/viewprogram/8661
    1/30/2008
  • Emerging Evidence and Future Directions in Treating Hypogonadism. 
    Dobs AS, Hayes FJ, Monograph, TestosteroneUpdate
    www.primaryperspective.org/tu/endo_supplement.pdf
    1/1/2008
  • Healthy Living Special Report: The Uses and Misuses of Testosterone Therapy: Johns Hopkins Professor Adrian Dobs, MD talks about testosterone replacement therapy. Heal... 
    Dobs AS, Healthy Living
    www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/reports/healthy_living/547-1.html
    1/7/2007
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Press Mentions

  • How Fat Phobia Impacts Patients and Doctors
    How Fat Phobia Impacts Patients and DoctorsAugust 5th, 2021
  • Why It’s Harder for Many Transgender People to Access (And Trust) COVID-19 Vaccines
    Why It’s Harder for Many Transgender People to Access (And Trust) COVID-19 VaccinesMay 18th, 2021
  • Thank You for All You Do: Endocrinology and Hematology
    Thank You for All You Do: Endocrinology and HematologyJuly 10th, 2020
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Professional Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

External Links

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