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Maria Iandolo New, MD — pediatric medicine (endocrinology)

Courtesy Maria Iandolo New, MD

Over the past half century, Dr. Maria Iandolo New (b. 1928) has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading pediatric endocrinologists. Her studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)—a deficiency in the adrenal system that causes gender ambiguity in females and precocious sexual development in males—has led to treatments to correct the disorder before the baby is born. Her groundbreaking identification of a new form of hypertension, “apparent mineralcorticoid excess,” has resulted in a new area of receptor biology.

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