Francesca Galbiati, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Early Investigator Award, Endocrine Society, 2024
• Young Investigator Award, Women in Endocrinology, 2023
• Pituitary Society Fellow Award, Pituitary Society, 2022

Education & Training

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• Clinical/Research Fellowship, Endocrinology diabetes and metabolism Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital 10/2025
• Residency, Internal Medicine University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 06/2021
• Postdoctoral research fellowship, Neuroendocrinology Massachusetts General Hospital 03/2019
• MD School of Medicine and Surgery University of Milan-Bicocca 07/2017

Grants and Projects

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• Sex-Specific Response in Oxytocin Concentrations to Estrogen Stimulation, Foundation for Women’s Wellness, 2023-2025
• Intranasal Oxytocin Effects on Anterior Pituitart Axes in Adults with Obesity, Endocrine Fellows Foundation, 2023-2025

Publications (21)

Top publication keywords:
Sex CharacteristicsKisspeptinsObesityOxytocinInfertilityHyponatremiaPituitary NeoplasmsGlycopeptidesInfertility, MaleHyperthyroidismHypogonadismVasopressinsOccupational DiseasesBariatric SurgeryPituitary Diseases

• Intravenous kisspeptin 112-121 bolus does not acutely impact circulating vasopressin in humans.
  Journal of neuroendocrinology 2025 Galbiati F, Plessow F, Plummer L, Campbell MB, Nazarloo S, Carter CS, Davis JM, Miller KK, Carroll RS, Kaiser UB, Seminara SB, Aulinas A, Lawson EA
• Arginine vasopressin dynamics in relation to food intake and 8-week intranasal oxytocin treatment in adults with obesity.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2025 Aulinas A, Galbiati F, Wronski ML, Carter CS, Nazarloo S, Holman K, Golden ER, Muhammed M, Hadaway N, Asanza E, Smith SE, Plessow F, Lawson EA
• Sex-dependent increases in oxytocin levels in response to intravenous kisspeptin in humans.
  European journal of endocrinology 2025 Galbiati F, Plessow F, Plummer L, Campbell MB, Nazarloo S, Carter CS, Carroll RS, Kim HK, Pereira SA, Paulis D, Davis JM, Miller KK, Kaiser UB, Seminara SB, Aulinas A, Lawson EA
• Increased copeptin may reflect vasopressin-related metabolic changes after bariatric surgery.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2024 Galbiati F, Becetti I, Lauze M, Aulinas A, Singhal V, Bredella MA, Lawson EA, Misra M
• Changes in pancreatic steatosis by computed tomography 24 months after sleeve gastrectomy in youth with severe obesity.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2024 Becetti I, Lopez Lopez AP, Galbiati F, Pedreira CC, Lauze M, Carreno KO, Huber FA, Bitoun O, Lee H, Carmine B, Singhal V, Misra M, Bredella MA

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• Intranasal Oxytocin for Obesity.
  NEJM evidence 2024 Plessow F, Kerem L, Wronski ML, Asanza E, O'Donoghue ML, Stanford FC, Eddy KT, Holmes TM, Misra M, Thomas JJ, Galbiati F, Muhammed M, Sella AC, Hauser K, Smith SE, Holman K, Gydus J, Aulinas A, Vangel…
• Autoimmune Disorders Associated With Surgical Remission of Cushing's Disease : A Cohort Study.
  Annals of internal medicine 2024 Nyanyo DD, Mikamoto M, Galbiati F, Remba-Shapiro I, Bode K, Schoenfeld S, Jones PS, Swearingen B, Nachtigall LB
• Levothyroxine for a high-normal TSH in unexplained infertility.
  Clinical endocrinology 2023 Galbiati F, Jokar TO, Howell LM, Li R, Fourman LT, Lee H, Jeong JH, Fazeli PK
• Incidence of postoperative hyponatremia after endoscopic endonasal pituitary transposition for skull base pathologies.
  Pituitary 2023 Galbiati F, Venugopal S, Abou-Al-Shaar H, Zenonos GA, Gardner PA, Fazeli PK, Mahmud H
• Weight regain after total meal replacement very low-calorie diet program with and with-out anti-obesity medications.
  Obesity science & practice 2023 Cifuentes L, Galbiati F, Mahmud H, Rometo D
• Hypothalamic and Pituitary Dysfunction After Extensive Brain Surgery: There Is Thirst for More Knowledge.
  JCEM case reports 2023 Galbiati F, Stamatiades GA, Bi WL, Abreu AP
• Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 Presenting in the Setting of Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pregnancy.
  AACE clinical case reports 2023 Stamatiades GA, Galbiati F, Fitzgerald AC, McDonnell ME, Lassey SC, Palermo NE
• Early Onset GH Excess: Somatotroph Adenoma in a Young Adult.
  JCEM case reports 2023 Galbiati F, Kaiser UB
• Low oxytocin levels are broadly associated with more pronounced psychopathology in anorexia nervosa with primarily restricting but not binge/purge eating behavior.
  Frontiers in endocrinology 2023 Plessow F, Galbiati F, Eddy KT, Misra M, Miller KK, Klibanski A, Aulinas A, Lawson EA
• The anabolic applications of androgens in older adults with functional limitations.
  Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders 2022 Gattu AK, Goldman AL, Guzelce EC, Galbiati F, Bhasin S
• Benefits and Risks of Testosterone Treatment of Older Men with Hypogonadism.
  The Urologic clinics of North America 2022 Galbiati FF, Goldman AL, Gattu A, Guzelce EC, Bhasin S
• Accurate measurement of total and free testosterone levels for the diagnosis of androgen disorders.
  Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism 2022 Guzelce EC, Galbiati F, Goldman AL, Gattu AK, Basaria S, Bhasin S
• Unpacking the Cognitive Baggage: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Galbiati F, Carter A, McQuade CN
• Type IV RTA in Chronic Adrenal Insufficiency and Concomitant Lisinopril Treatment.
  Case reports in endocrinology 2020 Galbiati F
• Understanding shared decision-making experience among vulnerable population: Focus group with food bank clients.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2020 Lee YJ, Brazile T, Galbiati F, Hamm M, Bryce C, Jain S, Kraschnewski J, McTigue K
• Medical comorbidities and endocrine dysfunction in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2020 Aulinas A, Marengi DA, Galbiati F, Asanza E, Slattery M, Mancuso CJ, Wons O, Micali N, Bern E, Eddy KT, Thomas JJ, Misra M, Lawson EA