Sudha Lakshmi Mootha, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Sudha Mootha, M.D., is a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Health℠ and an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Mootha earned her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She completed her fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at UT Health Science Center at Houston. She is board certified in Pediatric Endocrinology.
She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, The Endocrinology Society and American Diabetes Association.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (1991)
- Internship
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center (1992), Pediatrics
- Residency
- University of CA at San Francisco School of Med (1994), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- University of Texas Medical School at Houston (1998), Pediatric Endocrinology
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med (1996), 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
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)
- Constitutional growth delay
- Cushing's syndrome
- Delayed puberty
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC)
- Graves' disease
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypogonadism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Klinefelter syndrome (KS)
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
- 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)
- 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
- General endocrinology
- Diabetes
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Publications
- Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction associated with Moyamoya disease in children. Mootha SL, Riley WJ, Brosnan PG Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM 1999 May-Jun 12 3 449-53
- Idiopathic hypothalamic diabetes insipidus, pituitary stalk thickening, and the occult intracranial germinoma in children and adolescents. Mootha SL, Barkovich AJ, Grumbach MM, Edwards MS, Gitelman SE, Kaplan SL, Conte FA The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1997 May 82 5 1362-7
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Professional Activities
- American Diabetes Association
- Pediatric Endocrine Society
- The Endocrine Society
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Awards and Honors
- Mom-Approved Pediatrician - Dallas Child Magazine (2018)
- Oral Presentation, Idiopathic Diabetes Insipidus, Pituitary Stalk Thickening and the Occult Intracranial Germinoma. - International Congress of Endocrinology, San Francisco, CA (1996)
- Summa Cum Laude, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (1987)
