The Pediatric Endocrine & Metabolic Center

at Miller Children's Hospital
in Long Beach

The Pediatric Endocrine & Metabolic Center provides a multidisciplinary and multispecialty approach for diagnostic services and treatment plans for children with a variety of hormonal disorders. Offered are a comprehensive diabetes program, with programs for growth disorders, hypopituitarism, diseases of the thyroid and adrenal glands, intersex/ambiguous genitalia, precocious and delayed puberty, hypogonadism, hypoparathyroidism, rickets/metabolic bone disease, Turner's Syndrome, and other diseases of the endocrine system.

Pediatric Endocrine Center Team Members

Medical Director Endocrine

• Mario Brakin, MD

Medical Director Metabolic

• James Bartlez , MD

Physician

• Pablito G. Nagpala, MD

Nurse Practitioner

• Mary Steele, RN

Nurse Specialists

• Karen Kennedy, RN
• Lisa Melton, RN

Diabetic Educator

• Trudy Bly, RN, CDE