{"id":342,"date":"2017-11-27T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2017-11-27T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:01:03","slug":"dr-katherine-sherif","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/dr-katherine-sherif\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Katherine Sherif"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:30px 0 30px 0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/philadelphia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/katherine-d-sherif-md1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Sherif, MD\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-230\" \/><BR \/><span  style=\"margin-top:-15px; font-size:15pt; color:#008080\">Dr. Katherine Sherif<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:-20px; font-size:11pt; color:#444444;\">Director, Jefferson Women\u2019s Primary Care<BR \/>Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine<BR \/>Thomas Jefferson University<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Sherif is a leading expert on PCOS. As an internist in the 90\u2019s, she was studying insulin resistance when she discovered a special group of women with exaggerated insulin resistance: women with polycystic ovary syndrome. She started prescribing insulin sensitizers in the 90\u2019s based upon the work of Italian clinical investigators. In 2000, she co-founded the first academic center for Center for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with Dr. Shahab Minassian.  Dr. Sherif is also a top speaker and a writer in a number of areas including menopause, hormone replacement therapy, omega-3 fatty acids, and heart disease in women. She is author of <em>Women\u2019s Health in Clinical Practice: A Handbook for Primary Care<\/em> and <em>Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Katherine Sherif Director, Jefferson Women\u2019s Primary CareProfessor and Vice Chair, Department of MedicineThomas Jefferson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcoschallenge.org\/symposium\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}