Perrin C. White, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division Director at Children's Health
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Perrin White M.D., is the director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children's Health℠, which diagnoses and treats children with conditions of the major endocrine glands, such as the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, gonads and endocrine pancreas. He is also a Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. White is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Endocrinology. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and served as a pediatric resident at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also completed a research fellowship in molecular biology at Rockefeller University Hospital.
He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Pediatric Research and The Endocrine Society. He also holds the Audrey Newman Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Endocrinology at UT Southwestern, with research interests in hormonal conditions and diabetes in children.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Harvard Medical School (1976)
- Residency
- John Hopkins Hospital (1978), Pediatrics
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Endocrinology
Conditions
- 22q deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome VCFS)
- Acromegaly (Gigantism)
- Addison's disease (hypocortisolism)
- Adrenal carcinomas
- Adrenal disorders
- Adrenal mass
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- Constitutional growth delay
- Cushing's syndrome
- Delayed puberty
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Empty sella syndrome
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC)
- Graves' disease
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
- Hypogonadism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Joint disorders and joint pain
- Kallmann syndrome (KS)
- Klinefelter syndrome (KS)
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)
- Mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS)
- Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC)
- Multinodular goiter (MNG)
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
- Parathyroid Mass
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pituitary lesions
- Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
- Pre-diabetes
- Precocious puberty (early puberty)
- Septo-optic dysplasia
- Sexual development
- Short stature
- Thyroid carcinoma (cancer)
- Thyroid disorders
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease)
- Turner syndrome (TS)
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Genetic diseases of steroid hormone biosynthesis and metabolism
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
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Publications
Publications
- DNA Polymerase Epsilon Deficiency Causes IMAGe Syndrome with Variable Immunodeficiency. Logan CV, Murray JE, Parry DA, Robertson A, Bellelli R, Tarnauskaite Ž, Challis R, Cleal L, Borel V, Fluteau A, Santoyo-Lopez J, Aitman T, Barroso I, Basel D, Bicknell LS, Goel H, Hu H, Huff C, Hutchison M, Joyce C, Knox R, Lacroix AE, Langlois S, McCandless S, McCarrier J, Metcalfe KA, Morrissey R, Murphy N, Netchine I, O'Connell SM, Olney AH, Paria N, Rosenfeld JA, Sherlock M, Syverson E, White PC, Wise C, Yu Y, Zacharin M, Banerjee I, Reijns M, Bober MB, Semple RK, Boulton SJ, Rios JJ, Jackson AP Am. J. Hum. Genet. 2018 Dec 103 6 1038-1044
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Due to Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. Speiser PW, Arlt W, Auchus RJ, Baskin LS, Conway GS, Merke DP, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Miller WL, Murad MH, Oberfield SE, White PC J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2018 Nov 103 11 4043-4088
- Fluid Infusion Rates for Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis. White PC N. Engl. J. Med. 2018 Sep 379 12 1182-3
- Executive Function Predicting Longitudinal Change in Type 1 Diabetes Management During the Transition to Emerging Adulthood. Berg CA, Wiebe DJ, Suchy Y, Turner SL, Butner J, Munion A, Lansing AH, White PC, Murray M Diabetes Care 2018 Aug
- 11-ketotestosterone is the dominant circulating bioactive androgen during normal and premature adrenarche. Rege J, Turcu A, Kasa-Vubu JZ, Lerario AM, Auchus GC, Auchus RJ, Smith JM, White PC, Rainey WE J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2018 Aug
Books
- Disorders of the Adrenal Gland. In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 19th edition, Kliegman RM, Stanton B, Geme JS, Schor NF, Behrman RE, eds. White PC (2011). Elsevier Saunders
- The Syndrome of Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess. In Genetic Diseases of the Kidney, 1st edition, Lifton RP, Somlo S, Giebisch GH, Seldin DW, eds. White PC (2009). Elsevier
- Genes and Hormones. In Textbook of Endocrine Physiology, 6th edition, Kovacs WJ, Ojeda SR, eds. White PC (2011). Oxford University Press
- Steroid 11ß-Hydroxylase Isozymes. In Genetics of Steroid Biosynthesis and Function, 1st edition, Mason JI, ed. White PC, Rainey WE (2002). London, Taylor & Francis
- Synthesis and Metabolism of Corticosteroids; Corticosteroid Action. In Principles and Practice of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 3rd edition, Becker KL, Rebar RW, eds. White PC (2001). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Disorders of sexual development. In Goldman-Cecil Medicine, 25th edition, Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. White PC (2015). Elsevier Saunders
- Endocrine Hypertension. In Pediatric Hypertension, 3rd edition, Flynn JT, Ingelfinger JR, Portman RJ, eds. White PC (2013). New York, Springer
- Steroid 11ß-Hydroxylase Deficiency and Related Disorders. In Genetic Steroid Disorders, 1st edition, New MI, Lekarev O, Parsa A, Yuen TT, O'Malley B, Hammer GD, eds. White PC (2013). Elsevier
- Primary Adrenal Insufficiency. In Pediatric Endocrinology and Inborn Errors of Metabolism, 2nd Edition. White PC, Sarafoglou K. (2017). McGraw Hill
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Professional Activities
- American Pediatric Society (2006)
- American Society for Clinical Investigation (1990)
- Society for Pediatric Research (1987)
- The Endocrine Society (1989)
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Awards and Honors
- D Magazine Best Pediatric Specialist (2010, 2016, 2018-2020)
- Judson J. Van Wyk Prize 2019, Pediatric Endocrine Society (2019)
- Mead Johnson Award 1996, Society for Pediatric Research (1996)
- MERIT Award 1994, National Institutes of Health (1994)
- The Audre Newman Rapoport Distinguished Chair (1994), Pediatric Endocrinology
- Ernst Oppenheimer Award (1991), The Endocrine Society
- Young Investigator Award (1984), American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
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