Rate My Professor Juliana Austin

Juliana L. Austin, MD, MCR, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She serves as Director of the Thyroid Cancer Clinic and Attending Physician at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she specializes in pediatric endocrinology. Austin completed her medical training with an MD from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, followed by internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She then pursued a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Oregon Health & Science University. She holds certifications from the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology.

Her clinical and research interests focus on thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus, and disorders of growth and puberty. Austin has received several honors, including the T32 Training Grant from the NIH, the Endocrine Fellows Foundation Award, participation in the Karolinska Institutet Advanced Postgraduate Course, and the ESPE Summer School. She is an active member of the American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society, and Pediatric Endocrine Society. Key publications include: 'Incidence of thymic tissue in pediatric thyroidectomy' (International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2022); 'Meeting Report: 2018 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Endocrine Society' (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, 2018); 'A germline mutation of HRPT2/CDC73 (70 G>T) in an adolescent female with parathyroid carcinoma' (Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2016); 'Bone health in children and adolescents: Risk factors for low bone density' (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, 2013); 'Disorders of sex development – When and how to tell the patient' (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, 2011); 'Hormonal regulators of appetite' (International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2009); and 'How should we be treating children with congenital hypothyroidism?' (Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2007). Her work contributes to advancements in pediatric endocrine care, particularly in thyroid disorders.