Patient Care

At our endocrine clinics, our Division of Endocrinology faculty evaluate, monitor and treat children with endocrine disorders, from infancy through adolescence.

We offer a wide range of treatments and services. These include:

• Diabetes management: Helping children learn how to lead a healthy, normal life with diabetes. We teach families about checking blood sugar levels, taking insulin and developing positive habits (e.g., healthy diet, regular exercise) to keep diabetes under control.
• Insulin pump management: Teaching families how to use their child’s insulin pump — a small computerized device that delivers insulin to a child with diabetes.
• Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Training: Teaching families how to use their child’s CGM, which is a small sensor tube that is placed under the skin, where it takes continuous readings of glucose levels. This information can be sent to a receiving device or phone.
• Growth hormone management: Prescribing hormone injections for children who have growth hormone deficiency. This treatment allows children to grow and develop, and is usually given over the course of several years.
• Puberty suppression for precocious puberty: Prescribing a medication that suppresses the release of the hormones that stimulate early puberty. Delaying the onset of puberty until the typical age (ages 12 and 16 in boys, and ages 10 and 14 in girls) increases the likelihood that a child will have regular psychosocial development and will eventually reach a normal adult height.
• Thyroid Disease management: Prescribing treatment plans and medications for all thyroid conditions, including hypo- and hyperactive thyroids, as well as thyroid cancer.

Endocrinology Clinic

Children's Hospital & Medical Center
8200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68114
Office: 402-955-3871

Hours:

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday-Friday

Health Care Team

• Monina Cabrera, MD
• Salaheddin Elrokhsi, MD, MSc
• Bracha Goldsweig, MD
• Zoe Gonzalez-Garcia, MD
• Earline Edwards, MSN, APRN-NP
• Alice Jardee, MSN, APRN-NP
• Peg Strueberg, PA-C, CDE

Endocrinology Outreach Clinics