The Subspecialty Clinics listed below are in the Department of Internal Medicine. If you are not sure about the particular clinic you need, call 214 / 648-3678:
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| Offers comprehensive physician services including skin testing for both routine allergies and drug allergy. Evaluation and patient education for asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, food allergy, anaphylaxis and immunodeficiency. |
- ARTHRITIS See Rheumatic Diseases
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- CANCER See Medical Oncology
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| Cardiology offers comprehensive clinical evaluations, diagnostic testing and treatment of all cardiac symptoms and disorders. Services include electrocardiograms, arrhythmia monitoring, echocardiography stress testing (regular, nuclear and echocardiographic), cardiac catheterization and interventions, and electrophysiology and pacemaker services. Treatment of heart failure and evaluation for cardiac transplantation. |
| DIABETES See Endocrinology |
- ENDOCRINOLOGY Clinic 214/645-2800
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This unit offers physician consultation in all areas of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism.
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| Offers comprehensive consultation services in all aspects of gastroenterology and a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy including upper endoscopy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, enteroscopy, colonoscopy and screening flexible sigmoidoscopy. |
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Specializes in maintaining long-term adult wellness. The physicians in this clinic, the largest single clinical-care division at UT Southwestern, are experts in the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of common disorders. Among these disorders are diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis and concerns associated with aging. Our physicians coordinate the care of patients with complex disorders, assuring that all aspects of their health receive the proper care.
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| Provides multi-disciplinary assessment of older adults with complex medical and social problems. This approach ensures a complete and coordinated evaluation of individuals. |
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| Offers all services in clinical hematology including blood product administration for hemophilia and other clotting disorders. Diagnosis and management of complicated anemias. |
- HEPATOLOGY See Liver Diseases Clinic
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| Offers a complete range of clinical hypertension services including 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, diagnostic evaluation, non-drug and drug therapy. |
- HUMAN NUTRITION Clinic 214/645-2800
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Offers consultation about nutritional problems involved in conditions such as diabetes, obesity and lipid disorders.
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- INFECTIOUS DISEASES Clinic 214/645-2800
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| Offers comprehensive clinical services for non-trivial infectious diseases, AIDS, tropical medicine, and travel-related infections. |
- KIDNEY DIALYSIS See Nephrology Clinic
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- LIPID METABOLISM Clinic 214/645-2800
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| Offers consultation and management of primary and secondary disorders of cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism; cardiovascular risk-factor assessment in patients with hypercholesterolemia and/or hypertriglyceridemia. |
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| Offers comprehensive clinical services for liver diseases. Special expertise in viral hepatitis. Evaluation for liver transplantation. |
- MEDICAL GENETICS Clinic 214/648-2773
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| Offers consultation on adult genetic disorders. Referrals by physician required. |
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| Evaluation and treatment of patients with every form of cancer and other neoplasias. Clinical consultations, chemotherapy, genetic counseling and tumor genetic analysis. |
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| Renal Stones: 214/648-6740 Osteoporosis: 214/648-3889 |
Outpatient evaluation and treatment of renal stones, osteoporosis, parathyroid disorders and related diseases of mineral metabolism.
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| Provides all services in clinical nephrology including evaluation for transplantation and hemodialysis. |
- OSTEOPOROSIS See Mineral Metabolism Clinic
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| Provides all services in clinical pulmonary disease including pulmonary function testing and bronchoscopy. |
- RENAL STONES See Mineral Metabolism Clinic
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| Full range of physician services in rheumatic and autoimmune disease including arthrocentesis, injection of joints and experimental therapies. |
| The Internal Medicine supspecialty practices are participants in many managed care programs. If your coverage is provided by a managed care organization, it is your responsibility to contact them, before scheduling an appointment, to assure that UT Southwestern Internal Medicine specialists are participants in your health plan coverage. |
| The majority of physicians practicing in the following subspecialties require a referral from a general internist or primary care physician before scheduling an appointment. |
