Endocrinology

Peggy Joyce Stenger, DO

Appointment

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

peggy.stenger@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-4744

Fax

513-636-7486

Bio

Peggy J. Stenger, is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology. She has been in the Division of Endocrinology at Cincinnati Children’s since 1999. Prior to that she worked in the Babies Milk Fund at Norwood through the Department of General Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology. Her primary interest is in disorders of bone and calcium metabolism. She is a certified clinical densitometrist, especially interested in disorders of high bone mass.

Dr. Stenger received her bachelor of science in biology from the University of Texas in Arlington, Texas. She received her residency training at the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque where she also served as Chief Resident. She obtained pediatric endocrinology fellowship training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Stenger has previously served in the Indian Health Service at Gallup Indian Medical Center, Gallup, New Mexico. Prior to coming to Cincinnati, she was on the clinical faculty in General Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque. While there, she served on the New Mexico State Board of the American Diabetes Association. She was instrumental in organization of diabetes clinics at the University of New Mexico and worked in diabetes outreach clinics throughout the state.

Credentials

BS: University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

DO: Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas.

Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.

Fellowship: Pediatric Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

CCD: International Society Clinical Densitometry

Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics 1989; Pediatric Endocrinology, American Board of Pediatrics 1999; International Society Clinical Densitometry 2007

Publications, Most Recent

Posters

Stenger PJ, Eves EM, Ignatow M, Chernausek, SD. Role of IGFBP-4 in Differentiation of H197Rat Hippocampal Cells

Jefferson P. Lomenick, Richard Mier, Antonia M ,Calafat, Peggy Stenger, Michael B. Foster, Kupper A. Wintergerst, Urinary Phathalate Concentrations in Girls with Precocious Thelarche

Peggy J. Stenger, Lars Wagner, John Egelhoff, Susan R. Rose Bicalutamide and Letrozole Treatment of Precocious Puberty Due to Elevated Levels of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)