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    Matthew R. Benson, MD

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    Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville 807 Children's Way Jacksonville, FL 32207

    Biography

    Dr. Matthew R. Benson is a junior clinical scientist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo College of Medicine. His research includes an interest in bone health having studied screening tools for vitamin D deficiency as well as factors affecting nutritional rickets in Alaska Native Children. He has studied obesity in children and looked at lipoprotein sub-fractions in obese children as compared with lean children. He also has studied treatments for precocious puberty participating in a phase 3 trial that led to approval of a new subcutaneous gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist in children with precocious puberty. Of late, he has been involved in pivotal trials using artificial pancreas technology in type 1 diabetes mellitus.

    Fellowship

    • Pediatric Endocrinology - UF College of Medicine Jacksonville Program, 2011

    Internship

    • Pediatrics - Shands Jacksonville/WCH, 2007

    Education

    • M.D. - Ben-Gurion University of Negev, 2004

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics
    • American Board of Pediatrics/Endocrinology

    • Bone Health
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • Nutritional Rickets
    • Precocious Puberty

    • Early Results of an Innovative Scalable Digital Treatment for Diabetes Distress in Families of School-Age Children with Type 1 Diabetes; Children; (2024).

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    • Improved glycemic control either alone, or combined with antioxidant supplementation, fails to restore blood glutathione or markers of oxidative stress in adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes; Nutrition Research; (2023).

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    • Parental diabetes distress is a stronger predictor of child HbA1c than diabetes device use in school-age children with type 1 diabetes; BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care; (2023).

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    • Cambridge hybrid closed-loop algorithm in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a multicentre 6-month randomised controlled trial.; The Lancet. Digital health; (2022).

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    • Phase 3 Trial of a Small-volume Subcutaneous 6-Month Duration Leuprolide Acetate Treatment for Central Precocious Puberty.; The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism; (2020).

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    • Rickets and vitamin D deficiency in Alaska native children.; Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism; (2015).

    • Somatic and germline CACNA1D calcium channel mutations in aldosterone-producing adenomas and primary aldosteronism; Unknown Source; (2013).

    • Utility of Urine Calcium and Phosphate as Screening Tools for Vitamin D Deficiency in Children; Pediatrics and Therapeutics; (2012).

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    • Lipoprotein subfractions by ion mobility in lean and obese children; Unknown Source; (2012).