DebraHSchussheimMD

Summary

• Dr. Debra Schussheim is an endocrinologist in Westport, CT at Riverside Endocrinology, a new single specialty medical practice. She has dual board certification in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism as well as Obesity Medicine. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received her medical degree with honors from Yale School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City followed by an Endocrinology Fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Following a year as a senior research fellow in Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health, she returned to Columbia University Medical Center to join the faculty in the Metabolic Bone Unit, Endocrine Division.
  
  She has written book chapters, served as an editorial fellow at The Medical Letter and published her research in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, among other scientific journals.
  
  She has been in clinical practice more than 15 years and specializes in diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis & bone metabolism medicine, and thyroid.