SOM Faculty Profile : Mona M Sabra

Mona M Sabra M.D.

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Primary Appointment: Medicine

Additional Title(s): Chief, Diabetes Program, VAMC, Director, Thyroid Nodule and Cancer Program, UMMC, Joslin Diabetes Center, Maryland General Hospital

msabra@medicine.umaryland.edu

Phone: (410) 605-7432

Fax: 410) 706-6146

Research Interests

Research: Thyroid disease, diabetes genetics.

Prior involvement in research has span 2 major fields: Thyoidology and diabetes genetics. As a fellow, I was responsible in writing IRB clinical protocols, and recruiting patients for Recombinant TSH use both in the diagnostic phase and therapeutic arms, while collecting and processing data. I also performed laboratory research on positional cloning for susceptibility genes for type-2 diabetes on chromosome 1q24, and the study of thyroid cancer gene expression under the direction of the Division Chair.

Clinical Speciality

Clinical Interests: Thyroid diseases, Thyroid Cancer.

My main clinical interest lies in the management of patients with a variety of thyroid disorders with special emphasis to the management of patients with thyroid cancer. My expertise allows me to provide patients with a range of services including bedside ultrasonography and fine needle aspiration, administration of radioiodine with and without dosimetric calculations. I work in close collaboration with endocrine surgery, nuclear medicine and radiology.

Publications

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HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

Shuldiner AR, Sabra MM. Trp64Arg beta-3-adrenoceptor: When does a candidate gene become a disease-susceptibility gene? Obesity Research, 2001; 9:806-9.

Allen EM, Hsueh WC, Sabra MM, Pollin TI, Ladenson PW, Silver KD, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner AR. Genome-wide scan for autoimmune thyroid disease in the old order Amish: Replication of genetic linkage on chromosome 5q11.2-q14.3. JCEM, 2003; 88(3):1292-6.

Fu M, Damcott C, Sabra MM, Pollin TI, Ott S, Wang J, Garant M, O’Connell J, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner AR. Polymorphism in the Calsequestrin 1 Gene on Chromosome 1q21 Is Associated with Type 2 Diabetes in the Old Order Amish, Diabetes, 2004;53:3292-9

Sabra MM, Fu M, Damcott C, O’Connell J, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner Ar. Vesicle associated membrane protein 4, a positional candidate gene on chromosome 1q21-24, is not associated with Type 2 diabetes in the Old Order Amish. European Journal of Endocrinology, 2005;85: 133-9

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