718-918-6985
miriam.silfen@nbhn.net

Undergraduate:
Cornell University

Medical School:
New York University School of Medicine

Research and/or Clinical Interests:

• Polycystic ovaries
• Puberty

Bibliography:

• Silfen ME, Denburg MR, Manibo AM, et al: Early endocrine, metabolic, and sonographic characteristics of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): comparison between nonobese and obese adolescents. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003;88:4682-8.
• Uyttendaele H, Koss T, Bagheri B, Schneiderman P, Silfen ME, et al: Generalized acanthosis nigricans in an otherwise healthy young child. Pediatr Dermatol 2003;20:254-6.
• Denburg MR, Silfen ME, Manibo AM, et al: Insulin sensitivity and the insulin-like growth factor system in prepubertal boys with premature adrenarche. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:5604-9.
  PMID: 12466359 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Chin D, Oberfield SE, Silfen ME, et al: Proinsulin in girls: relationship to obesity, hyperinsulinemia, and puberty. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:4673-7.
• Silfen ME, Manibo AM, Ferin M, et al: Elevated free IGF-I levels in prepubertal Hispanic girls with premature adrenarche: relationship with hyperandrogenism and insulin sensitivity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:398-403.
  PMID: 11788683 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Silfen ME, Shackleton CH, Manibo AM, et al : 5 alpha-reductase and 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in prepubertal Hispanic girls with premature adrenarche. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:4647-51.
• Sopher AB, Thornton JC, Silfen ME, et al: Prepubertal girls with premature adrenarche have greater bone mineral content and density than controls. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001;86:5269-72.
• Silfen ME, Manibo AM, McMahon DJ, et al: Comparison of simple measures of insulin sensitivity in young girls with premature adrenarche: the fasting glucose to insulin ratio may be a simple and useful measure. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001;86:2863-8.
• Silfen ME, Garvin JH Jr, Hays AP, et al: Primary central nervous system lymphoma in childhood presenting as progressive panhypopituitarism. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2001;23:130-3.
• Scahchner HC, Silfen ME: Endocrine emergencies, in Crain EF, Gershel JC (eds), Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (4th ed), McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003.