Tag: Dr. Tuttle

We are extremely proud of Dr. Alex Tuttle. For the past 3 years, Dr. Tuttle has been a pediatric endocrinology fellow in our program. Today he finishes this training and will officially become a “board eligible” pediatric endocrinologist. During these past three years, Dr. Tuttle has been an exemplary fellow, delivering excellent clinical care and demonstrating exceptional clinical teaching. His contributions include being an enthusiastic volunteer at Diabetes Camp. While a fellow, he created a new approach and platform to teach pediatric physicians how to manage diabetes in hospitalized patients. Earlier this year, he presented this work at the International Meeting of Pediatric Endocrinology. He will be missed by his patients, who admired his kind and thoughtful demeanor. We too will miss Dr. Tuttle, as he has accepted a faculty position at a another major midwest academic children’s hospital where he will also continue his clinical work in pediatric endocrinology and also work on advancing physician education as well. Congratulations Dr. Tuttle!

The 11^th International Meeting of Pediatric Endocrinology was held March 4-7 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This meeting allows pediatric endocrinology physicians from around the world opportunity to share their experiences, advances and best practices. This year the meeting was attended by over 1200 pediatric endocrinologists. Dr. Tuttle, a 3^rd year pediatric endocrinology fellow in our division, presented his fellowship scholarly project at the meeting. He has created an interactive e-Book designed to more effectively teach pediatric resident physicians how to manage diabetes in hospitalized patients. Diabetes is difficult to manage, especially during illness and hospitalization. Mismanagement can lead to excessive hyperglycemia, elevated ketones, and/or hypoglycemia. Efficiently and effectively teaching learning physicians the complexities of management is challenging. Dr. Tuttle has met this challenge by creating new teaching approaches and materials and is currently working to optimize these new tools. An abstract of his poster presentation can be found here (link – note: this content may not be freely available at this external website).

Proper blood sugar management of hospitalized children with type 1 diabetes is complex and notoriously difficult to teach. For this reason, Dr. Alex Tuttle has begun work aimed at creating teaching materials for training doctors best practices for managing diabetes in the hospital setting. He has created a draft set of teaching materials. To support further development of these materials for broader use, he applied to the OpenHawks program. The program has just announced that they will help fund his project (announcement can be found at this link). This funding will enable him to convert his work into a proper Open Educational Resource that would be freely available to anyone. Congratulations to Dr. Tuttle for this milestone, and we look forward to further progress. Dr. Vanessa Curtis from our division has also been involved in advising Dr. Tuttle’s project.

Today we are thrilled to announce that Dr. Alex Tuttle has joined our division as a pediatric endocrine fellow. He will serve three years in this role, after which he will be a full fledged board eligible pediatric endocrinologist. Dr. Tuttle received his Medical Degree from Indiana University. He then completed a pediatric residency at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. While a resident he demonstrated an aptitude for and interest in pediatric endocrinology, and was highly involved in diabetes camp (see picture below) at Camp Herkto Hollow and helped report an unusual pediatric endocrine case related to thyroid eye disease (link). Welcome Dr. Tuttle!!