Dr. Rekha Quazi, MD is a Board Certified Pediatrician with Pediatric endocrinology as sub speciality.
Pediatrics is a branch of medicine specialising in providing medical care to infants, children and adolescents. Pediatricians treat disorders and diseases in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatricians have background knowledge of congenital defects, immunology, oncology, infectious diseases, immunizations, and disorders that are unique to children. Pediatricians generally treat patients until they become eighteen years of age.
Pediatric endocrinology is the study and treatment of disorders of the endocrine system of infants, children and adolescents. A pediatric endocrinologist is a pediatrician who treats children with diabetes, metabolism disorders, and other hormonal conditions. An endocrinologist treats diseases that result from an abnormality in the endocrine glands (glands which secrete hormones), such as diabetes, growth failure, early or late pubertal development, birth defects and thyroid disorders.