Dr. Wexler is an internationally recognized endocrinologist specializing in neuroendocrinology and reproductive endocrinology. She has served as an Attending Physician in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and as the founding Director of the NYU Langone Medical Center Pituitary Center. Her research efforts focus on pituitary dysfunction after brain injury.
Dr. Wexler received her MD and her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Endocrinology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was part of the Neuroendocrine Unit, designed and ran national clinical trials on the effects of growth hormone, and served for 12 years on the Optimum Care Committee.
While on staff at the MGH, Dr. Wexler spent four years at McKinsey & Company, where she served as the Global Endocrinology Lead. She is an elected member of the Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines Committee and of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Leadership Council, reviewed grants for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the area of reproductive health, and serves on the editorial board of Endocrine Today. She is a speaker and moderator at academic medical centers and national conferences on the topic of pituitary function, reproductive endocrinology, and post-TBI endocrine disorders. Her publications appear in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Clinical Endocrinology, among other journals.
Research Areas
Post-traumatic Hypopituitarism, Post-traumatic Growth Hormone Deficiency, Brain Injury Associated Fatigue & Altered Cognition (BIAFAC), IGF-1 Assays in Screening for Growth Hormone Deficiency, Quality of Life in Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency with Recombinant Growth Hormone Treatment, Brain Fog, Cognition & the Microbiome.
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