Endocrinology

Stuart Handwerger, MD

Title

Director, Division of Endocrinology

Appointment

Robert and Mary Shoemaker Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

stuart.handwerger@chmcc.org

Phone

513-636-4209

Fax

513-636-7486

Credentials

MD: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1964.

Residency: Pediatrics, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 1965 to 1966.

Fellowship: Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, MA, 1968 to 1969.

Certification: Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics, 1969; subspecialty Boards, Pediatric Endocrinology, 1978.

Awards and Honors

Best Doctors in America, 2000-2009
Merit Award NIH 1983-1993
Guggenheim Fellow 1979-1980

Research Grants and Contracts

Decidual Prolactin in Normal and Pathologic Pregnancy
The Physiology of Placental Lactogen
Pediatric Center for Gene Expression and Development

Funded Training Programs

Training in Developmental and Perinatal Endocrinology
Training in Pediatric Nephrology
Training in Pediatric Rheumatology

Publications, Most Recent

View Stuart Handwerger's publications at Cincinnati Children's as listed by PubMed.

Kessler CA, Bachurski CJ, Schroeder J, Stanek J, Handwerger S, TEAD1 inhibits prolactin gene expression in cultured human uterine decidual cells, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 295 (1-2), 32-38, 2008

Robins J, Heizer A, Hardiman A, Hubert M, Handwerger S, Oxygen tension directs the differentiation pathway of cytotrophoblast cells, Placenta, 28:1141-1146, 2007

Kimura AP, Handwerger S, Liebhaber SA and Cooke NE, Epigenetic activation of the human growth hormone gene cluster during placental differentiation, Molecular and Cell Biology, 27:6555-6568, 2007

Schleiss MR, Aronow BJ, et al, Cytomegalovirus infection of human syncytiotrophoblast cells strongly interferes with expression of genes involved in placental differentiation and tissue integrity, Pediatric Research 61(5 Pt 1): 565-71, 2007

Eyal O, Jomain JB, Kessler C, Goffin V, Handwerger S Autocrine prolactin inhibits human uterine decidualization: a novel role for prolactin, Biology of Reproduction 76:777-783, 2007

Lomenick JP, Hubert MA and Handwerger S,Transcription factor FOXF1 regulates growth hormone variant gene expression, American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology Metabolism 291(5): E947-51 , 2006

Kong S, Aronow BJ and Handwerger S, Gene expression microarray data analysis of decidual and placental cell differentiation, Methods in Molecular Medicine 121:425-438, 2006

Kessler CA, Schroeder JK, Brar AK, Handwerger S, Transcription factor ETS1 is critical for human uterine decidualization, Molecular Human Reproduction 12:71-76,

KesslerCA, Moghadan K, Buckley A, Schroeder J and BrarAK, Cannabinoid receptor I activation markedly inhibits human decidualization, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 229: 65-74, 2005

Cheng Y-H and Handwerger S, Mitogen-activated protein kinase activation induces corticotrophin-releasing hormone gene expression in human placenta, Life Sciences 77:1263-1272, 2005