Welcome to Lehigh Valley Health Network Endocrinology Fellowship program.
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a multi-campus health network located in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. We are one of the largest healthcare networks in the Commonwealth and serve the healthcare needs of a very diverse population throughout the greater Lehigh Valley and beyond. The patients we serve come from our urban centers located in Allentown, Easton and Bethlehem as well as the surrounding suburbs. Our reach also extends into more rural parts of our region, with northern campuses in the Poconos, Hazelton and Schuylkill County.
Our flagship campus is Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest. It houses over 850 beds and is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We are a major referral site for regional community hospitals and are leaned upon heavily for our specialty care. Modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment underscore the hospital's priority towards offering the best environment in which to learn, work and provide medical care. This campus hosts our internal medicine residency program, our fellowship programs and most of our graduate medical education programs. We are also a clinical campus for the University of South Florida (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine.
Endocrinology Fellowship Highlights
Lehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) Endocrinology Fellowship Program provides innovative, fellow-centered training. We received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in April, 2017, and our inaugural class began in July, 2018. The two-year clinical endocrinology fellowship provides an outstanding opportunity for clinical and academic training. Each fellowship class consists of two fellows.
Program highlights include:
- Busy inpatient and outpatient practice with wide variety of endocrine cases.
- Access to inpatient and outpatient diabetes education.
- Exposure to cutting edge technology with extremely busy pump practice and new telemedicine program.
- Wide variety of exposures including:
- Endocrinology in pregnancy – a collaborative clinic with maternal fetal medicine
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Weight management with option to become board certified in obesity medicine
- Thyroid biopsy
- Wound care
- Nutrition
- Reproductive endocrinology
- Podiatry
- Busy endocrine testing lab with dedicated nurses
Leadership Team:
Gretchen Perilli, MD - Program Director
Sharmila Koshy, MD - Associate Program Director
Kelly Neff – Program Coordinator
Robert McCauley - Chief of Endocrinology
Erin Scholten - Practice Lead