Our site includes weekly rotations at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) throughout the two years of fellowship. This hospital is a 1,041-bed non-profit, tertiary, research, and academic medical center, which provides services to the western Florida and the greater Tampa Bay region. It is well known for its transplant, neurosurgical and cardiovascular services. Our fellows on this rotation site are continuously exposed to the management of complex pituitary disorders, critical thyroid disorders, and adrenal glands dysfunction. Our team is also part of the inpatient management of diabetes mellitus complicated after organ transplantation, patients’ status post pancreatectomy, severe insulin resistance, patients with parenteral induced hyperglycemia, management of diabetes technological devices, among others. Our inpatient Endocrine service has been ranked #1 in the state of Florida and has been in the top 50 nationwide. Our mission at TGH is that our fellows leave our program with a well-rounded clinical endocrine experience.

The James A. Haley VA (JAHVA) is a Tertiary Care Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility. It is one of the busiest VA healthcare facilities in the nation servicing more than 100,000 veterans. JAHVA is a teaching hospital affiliated with USF and it is the main training site of our fellowship Program. It provides a full range of patient care opportunities with state-of-the art technology. Fellows will experience continuity of care, from inpatient to outpatient and from new consult to follow-up, in their own continuity clinics with opportunity for Video Visits, e-consultations and Telemedicine. They do live thyroid sonograms and perform thyroid biopsies under the guidance of 2 ECNU certified Thyroid specialists. Diabetes clinics provide a multidisciplinary care with exposure to complex diabetes cases with focus on the interpretation of continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Ancillary services such as a certified nutritionist, a dedicated diabetes pharmacist and a diabetic educator are available on site. Complementing the TGH experience, inpatient consults in the JAHVA provide exposure to patients in a wide variety of clinical settings that include inpatient wards, intensive care unit, polytrauma facilities, spinal cord injury unit, psychiatric unit, and nursing home settings. Our dedicated, expert faculties are passionate about education and will work hard to ensure that all our fellows become the best Endocrinologist they can be.

Moffitt Cancer Center, (MCC) is a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center and has been listed in US news and World Report as one of the best hospitals for cancer care since 1999. Moffitt devotes more than 2.5 million square feet to research in patient care.  The overall goal of this rotation is for the fellows in training to gain expertise in our unique patient population and to have an appreciation and understanding for complicated oncologic endocrine tumors and other abnormalities which occur in cancer patients.  During the rotation there is always one endocrinologist available to mentor the fellows throughout their rotation. All the trainees participate in the endocrine tumor board, a true multidisciplinary conference allows all the consultants to present cases which are discussed in detail incorporating the MCC pathways in order to plan out complicated diagnostic and treatment plans. There is a weekly board review course.  There are interdisciplinary thyroid/Neck/parathyroid ultrasound clinics in which fellows participate learning ultrasound physics and the applications in identifying and treating suspicious nodules utilizing ultrasound guided fine needle aspirations. The pathologists are available to review and teach the fellows regarding staining techniques, specialized markers, and microscopic evaluations, in summary, rotation at MCC makes the USF endocrinology fellowship program more competitive and permit our fellows to graduates with unique understanding and knowledge of Endocrine Oncology.