Ken Woeber, MD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Master Clinician, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 2006
• Maimonides Award, Shaare Zedek,Medical Center, Israel, 1993
• Honorary Alpha Omega Alpha, UCSF, 1985
• Van Meter Prize, American Thyroid Association, 1974
• Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1973

Education & Training

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• M.D. School of Medicine University of Witwatersrand 1957

Websites

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• Profile at endocrine.medicine.ucsf.edu (endocrine.medicine.ucsf.edu)
• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)

Publications (70)

Top publication keywords:
Thyroid DiseasesThyroid NeoplasmsThyroxineGraves DiseaseThyrotoxicosisImmunoglobulins, Thyroid-StimulatingMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesHyperthyroidismThyroid NoduleThyroglobulinHeart DiseasesTriiodothyronineAdrenocorticotropic HormoneHypothyroidismThyrotropin

• Peripheral IV Insulin Infusion Infiltration Presenting as "Insulin Resistance".
  Critical care medicine 2016 Kim TY, Woeber KA, MacMaster HW, Rushakoff RJ
• AN OVERVIEW OF ENDOGENOUS SUBCLINICAL HYPERTHYROIDISM AND CARDIAC DISEASE.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2016 Woeber KA
• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODIES IN PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2016 Woeber KA
• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AND AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY POSITION STATEMENT ON THYROID DYSFUNCTION CASE FINDING.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2016 Hennessey JV, Garber JR, Woeber KA, Cobin R, Klein I, AACE Thyroid Scientific Committee, American College of Endocrinology (ACE)
• Aggressive case finding: a clinical strategy for the documentation of thyroid dysfunction.
  Annals of internal medicine 2015 Hennessey JV, Klein I, Woeber KA, Cobin R, Garber JR

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• AACE/ACE disease state commentary: molecular diagnostic testing of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytopathology.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2014 Bernet V, Hupart KH, Parangi S, Woeber KA
• Recurrent pituitary macroadenoma with increased plasma ACTH precursors that cross-react in a commonly used ACTH immunoassay.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2014 Woeber KA, White A, Kurtz TW
• In response.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2013 Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, American Thyroid Association Taskforce on…
• Acute liver failure with thyrotoxicosis treated with liver transplantation.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2013 Cascino MD, McNabb B, Gardner DG, Woeber KA, Fox AN, Wang B, Fix OK
• Clinical practice guidelines for hypothyroidism in adults: cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2012 Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA, American Association Of Clinical Endocrinologists And American Thyroid Association Taskforce…
• Clinical practice guidelines for hypothyroidism in adults: cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2012 Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American Thyroid Association Taskforce…
• Metastatic papillary thyroid cancer misdiagnosed as non-small [corrected] cell lung cancer.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2011 Moalem J, Choi DX, Khanafshar E, Ruan DT, Woeber KA, Clark OH, Kebebew E
• Relationship between thyroid stimulating hormone and thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin in Graves' hyperthyroidism.
  Journal of endocrinological investigation 2010 Woeber KA
• Results of rosiglitazone therapy in patients with thyroglobulin-positive and radioiodine-negative advanced differentiated thyroid cancer.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2009 Kebebew E, Lindsay S, Clark OH, Woeber KA, Hawkins R, Greenspan FS
• Graves ophthalmopathy after radiation treatment of thyroid cancer.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2008 Woeber KA, Schwartz LK
• A phase II trial of rosiglitazone in patients with thyroglobulin-positive and radioiodine-negative differentiated thyroid cancer.
  Surgery 2006 Kebebew E, Peng M, Reiff E, Treseler P, Woeber KA, Clark OH, Greenspan FS, Lindsay S, Duh QY, Morita E
• Triiodothyronine production in Graves' hyperthyroidism.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2006 Woeber KA
• Observations concerning the natural history of subclinical hyperthyroidism.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2005 Woeber KA
• Extent of disease and practice patterns for medullary thyroid cancer.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2005 Kebebew E, Greenspan FS, Clark OH, Woeber KA, Grunwell J
• Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Treatment outcome and prognostic factors.
  Cancer 2005 Kebebew E, Greenspan FS, Clark OH, Woeber KA, McMillan A
• Evaluation of a "formal" endocrinology curbside consultation service: advice by means of internet, fax, and telephone.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2003 Rushakoff RJ, Woeber KA
• Methimazole-induced hepatotoxicity.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2002 Woeber KA
• Levothyroxine therapy and serum free thyroxine and free triiodothyronine concentrations.
  Journal of endocrinological investigation 2002 Woeber KA
• Update on the management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism.
  Archives of family medicine 2000 Woeber KA
• Update on the management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism.
  Archives of internal medicine 2000 Woeber KA
• The year in review: the thyroid.
  Annals of internal medicine 1999 Woeber KA
• Potentiation of warfarin sodium by amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis.
  The Western journal of medicine 1999 Woeber KA, Warner I
• Subclinical thyroid dysfunction.
  Archives of internal medicine 1997 Woeber KA
• Diagnostic enigmas in thyroid disease.
  The Western journal of medicine 1996 Woeber KA
• Hyperthyroidism.
  Annals of internal medicine 1995 Woeber KA
• Thyrotoxicosis and cardiac disease.
  Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians 1993 Woeber KA
• Thyrotoxicosis and the heart.
  The New England journal of medicine 1992 Woeber KA
• Peripheral thyroid hormone metabolism in humans.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 1990 Woeber KA
• Aging and the thyroid.
  The Western journal of medicine 1985 Woeber KA
• Effect of amiodarone on L-triiodothyronine stimulation of [3H] thymidine incorporation into GH3 cells.
  Journal of endocrinological investigation 1982 Goldfine ID, Maddux B, Woeber KA
• Thyroid hormone binding in nonthyroid illness.
  Metabolism: clinical and experimental 1981 Woeber KA, Maddux BA
• Sulfhydryl group modulation and triiodothyronine generation in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1980 Woeber KA
• L-triiodothyronine and L-reverse-triiodothyronine generation in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1978 Woeber KA
• Observations concerning the binding of L-triiodothyronine in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1977 Woeber KA
• Influence of superoxide dismutase and catalase on the stimulation by phagocytosis of L-thyroxine and L-triiodothyronine deiodination in the human leukocyte.
  Endocrinology 1976 Woeber KA
• A granule-associated L-thyroxine deiodinating system in the human leukocyte.
  Endocrinology 1976 Woeber KA
• Metabolism of L-thyroxine by phagocytosing peritoneal macrophages.
  Endocrinology 1974 Woeber KA, Doherty GF, Ingbar SH
• Renal cystic disease.
  California medicine 1973 Martin DW, Woeber KA
• Metabolism of L-thyroxine by phagocytosing human leukocytes.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1973 Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Progressive systemic sclerosis. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue".
  California medicine 1973 Martin D, Woeber KA, Smith LH
• Accelerated cellular uptake and metabolism of L-thyroxine during acute Salmonella typhimurium sepsis.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1973 DeRubertis FR, Woeber KA
• Stimulation by phagocytosis of the deiodination of L-thyroxine in human leukocytes.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 1972 Woeber KA, Doherty GF, Ingbar SH
• The effect of acute infection with Diplococcus pneumoniae on hepatic mitochondrial alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity.
  Endocrinology 1972 DeRubertis FR, Woeber KA
• Evidence for enhanced cellular uptake and binding of thyroxine in vivo during acute infection with Diplococcus pneumoniae.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1972 DeRubertis FR, Woeber KA
• The influence of salicylate on serum TSH concentration in patients with primary hypothyroidism.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1972 Yamamoto T, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Alterations in thyroid hormone economy during acute infection with Diplococcus pneumoniae in the rhesus monkey.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1971 Woeber KA
• The effects of an acute load of thyroxine on the transport and peripheral metabolism of triiodothyronine in man.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1970 Woeber KA, Hecker E, Ingbar SH
• The peripheral metabolism of triiodothyronine in normal subjects and in patients with hyperthyroidism.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1970 Woeber KA, Sobel RJ, Ingbar SH, Sterling K
• Induction of myxedema by iodide in patients euthyroid after radioiodine or surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter.
  The New England journal of medicine 1969 Braverman LE, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Growth hormone response during sandfly fever.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1968 Beisel WR, Woeber KA, Bartelloni PJ, Ingbar SH
• The contribution of thyroxine-binding prealbumin to the binding of thyroxine in human serum, as assessed by immunoadsorption.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1968 Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Effect of norethandrolone on the metabolism of 125-I-labeled thyroxine-binding prealbumin.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1968 Braverman LE, Socolow EL, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Sugar, fat, and the pill.
  Annals of internal medicine 1967 Woeber KA, Arky RA
• Effects of propranolol on the hormonal and metabolic responses to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia.
  Lancet (London, England) 1966 Abramson EA, Arky RA, Woeber KA
• Reversal by guanethidine of abnormal oral glucose tolerance in thyrotoxicosis.
  Lancet (London, England) 1966 Woeber KA, Arky R, Braverman LE
• An unusual case of Cushing's syndrome.
  The New England journal of medicine 1965 Braverman LE, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH
• Hypoglycaemia as the result of isolated corticotrophin-deficiency.
  British medical journal 1965 Woeber KA, Arky R
• Preparation of I-131-labeled human serum prealbumin and its metabolism in normal and sick patients.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1965 Socolow EL, Woeber KA, Purdy RH, Holloway MT, Ingbar SH
• ANTITHYROID EFFECT OF NONCALORIGENIC CONGENERS OF SALICYLATE, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE INFLUENCE OF SERUM PROTEINS ON THE POTENCY OF ANTITHYROID AGENTS.
  Endocrinology 1965 WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH
• OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE THYROXINE-BINDING SITE OF PREALBUMIN IN HUMAN SERUM.
  Endocrinology 1964 WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH
• EFFECTS OF SALICYLATE AND ITS NONCALORIGENIC CONGENERS ON THE THYROIDAL RELEASE OF 131-I IN PATIENTS WITH THYROTOXICOSIS.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1964 WOEBER KA, BARAKAT RM, INGBAR SH
• THE EFFECTS OF NONCALORIGENIC CONGENERS OF SALICYLATE ON THE PERIPHERAL METABOLISM OF THYROXINE.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1964 WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH
• DIFFUSION OF GASES OUT OF THE DISTAL NEPHRONSEGMENT IN MAN. I. NH3.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1963 WOEBER KA, REID EL, KIEM I, HILLS AG
• Effect of salicylate on the binding of thyroxine by human serum proteins at pH 7.4.
  Endocrinology 1963 WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH
• The syndrome of intrathoracic neoplasia with bilateral hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex.
  Annals of internal medicine 1961 HILLS AG, WOEBER KA