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About Me: Dr. Rachael Oxman completed her undergraduate education at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. She went on to attend the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai earning both her medical degree and masters of public health. She then completed her Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview where she received the Frank L Coulson, Jr Award for Clinical Excellence upon her graduation. She completed her specialty fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at UCLA. After fellowship, she joined faculty at the UCLA Gonda Diabetes Center in Santa Monica. Most recently, she additionally became a fellow of the EnVision Cystic Fibrosis: Emerging Leaders in CF Endocrinology II Program funded through The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to address the unique endocrinologic needs of patients with cystic fibrosis at UCLA. Her clinical interests include Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes, Insulin Pump Therapy, and Continuous Glucose Monitoring. She is also enthusiastic about community health promotion, expanding access to diabetes care through telehealth and quality improvement research.
Links: uclahealth.org/weight-management
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Primary Office: Santa Monica Endocrinology
2020 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 550
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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Phone: 310-828-1050
Fax: 310-828-2382

Medical Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2016
Certification 2: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2018
Fellowship: Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism, UCLA School of Medicine, 2015-2017
Residency: Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 2012-2015
Degree: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MD, MPH, 2012

Interests

Diabetes Type 1
Type 1 Diabetes
In type 1 diabetes, the body can’t make insulin. Insulin is needed to help sugar (glucose) enter cells for energy. Read on to learn more about this condition that often develops in children or young adults.
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Diabetes Type 2
Type 2 Diabetes
When your body can't make enough insulin or can't use insulin, it is called type 2 diabetes. Insulin helps the cells in the body absorb glucose, or sugar, for energy. Without insulin, glucose builds up in the blood resulting in high blood sugar.
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Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that happens during pregnancy. The symptoms of gestational diabetes usually go away after delivery. But sometimes they do not, or you may develop type 2 diabetes later.
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Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults (LADA)

Publications

Peer Reviewed (Published)

David A. Savitz, PhD, Rachael T. Oxman, BA, Kristina B. Metzger, PhD, MPH, Sylvan Wallenstein, PhD, Diane Stein, BS, Jacqueline M. Moline, MD, MSc, Robin Herbert, MD. Epidemiologic research on man-made disasters: Strategies and implications of cohort definition for World Trade Center worker and volunteer surveillance program. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 75:77-87, 2008.
Mammen JS, Mcgready J, Oxman R, Chia CW, Ladenson P, Simonsick E. Thyroid Hormone Therapy and Risk of Thyrotoxicosis in Community-Resident Older Adults: Findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.Thyroid. 2015 Sep;25(9):979-86.
Oxman R and Smooke S. Diabetes in a Patient Treated with PD-1 Inhibitor. Clinical Vignette. Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare Volume 21 (2017)

Peer-Reviewed (In Press)

Chon D*, Oxman R*, Muller R, Weinreb J. Diabetic Pharmacotherapies in Kidney Disease. In Rhee C, Brent G, Kalantar-Zadeh K (eds), Endocrine Disorders in Kidney Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer Publishers. In press (* co-first authors)

Awards

Super Doctors® Southern California Rising Stars 2021
Super Doctors® Southern California Rising Stars 2020
2019 Awardee, EnVision Cystic Fibrosis: Emerging Leaders in CF Endocrinology II Program
2015 The Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence (MCACE): Winner of the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence, Johns Hopkins Hospital
2009 Environmental & Occupational Health Summer Traineeship: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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