University
of Pennsylvania
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes
& Metabolism
415 Curie Boulevard
626 Clinical Research Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6149
Phone: (215) 573-5413
Fax: (215) 898-5408
E-mail: stoffers@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education
Undergraduate:
Johns Hopkins University
Degree: B.A. in Chemistry
Medical: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Degree: M.D. in Medicine
Degree: Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Residency
Brigham
and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusettes
Fellowship:
Mass General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusettes
Board Certification:
Internal Medicine
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolsim
Biography
Dr.
Stoffers completed her Internal Medicine residency
at Harvard Medical School in 1993. Following completion
of a two-year fellowship as a research fellow in the
Laboratory of Dr. Joel F. Habener, Laboratory of Molecular
Endocrinology, she joined the faculty at Penn in August
of 1998. Dr. Stoffers honors and awards include the
McCabe Fund Pilot Project Award and the Penn-Hughes
Fellow Award, both at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has also won the Travel Award from the National
Science Foundation/Women in Endocrinology and the
NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Award. Dr. Stoffers
current research focuses on pancreas development and
its relationship to the pathphysiology of diabetes
mellitus. The emphasis of this research stems from
genetic studies linking monogenic forms of diabetes
(formerly called MODY; maturity onset diabetes of
the young) to mutations in a transcription factor,
IPF-1, that plays critical roles in early pancreas
development and in insulin gene regulation in the
differentiated cell.
