I am so pleased and excited to have opened a pediatric practice devoted to caring for children and adolescents with diabetes and other endocrine issues. Before working at Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Specialists, I held a part-time faculty position at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital, in the Dept of Pediatric Endocrinology, where I also completed my Pediatrics residency and Endocrinology training. Prior to moving to Connecticut for my training, I lived in Boston, Massachusetts, where I attended Boston University School of Medicine.

During my fellowship training, I became interested in hypoglycemia and its effects on the developing brain. I was the recipient of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pharmacia Fellowship Grant, and my research findings were published in The American
Journal of Physiology.

When I am not seeing patients, I spend my time taking care of our 2 daughters, Julia (5)
and Elena (2), along with my husband, Tony. We live in Southbury, CT.

We have a really great team of providers here at Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Specialists. We all share the same goal of providing state-of-the-art care for our patients, without the hassles of a "big institution" close to home. We look forward to meeting you and your family!

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Hello, my name is Elizabeth Doyle, and I was so happy to join Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Specialists in June of 2008. I have lived in Connecticut since I was six years old. I have always wanted to be a nurse for children since I was a small child. I completed my bachelor's degree at Villanova University, a nursing diploma at St Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, and my master's degree from Yale University in the pediatric nurse practitioner program in 1995. It was here at Yale where my passion developed for caring for children with diabetes. After completing a concentration in diabetes care during my final year at Yale University, I joined the Yale Pediatric Diabetes Team as a pediatric nurse practitioner upon graduation, and worked there for the following 13 years.  

While at Yale I had both a clinical and research role, with my research work most recently centering on diabetes technology, particularly continuous glucose sensors. Through all of these years working with diabetes, I developed such a great appreciation and awe for our families who must learn to live with this condition every day of their life. My goal in practice has always been to try to help children with diabetes to obtain the best control of their condition as possible, while at the same time minimizing the impact on the quality of life of them and their family. This certainly is a challenge!!

In June of 2008, I joined Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Specialists. I have greatly enjoyed the continuity of care with families inherent within a private practice such as this, as opposed to a university/hospital setting. I also am so pleased that we are able to offer state of the art diabetes care in my home area, Fairfield County. (I live in Wilton, CT). We are excited to be able to offer different services, such as educational programs and support groups to families in this region.

When not working, I spend all of my free time with my husband John, and our two beautiful children, James (3) and Mary Kate (2), and hoping that the New York Yankees are playing in October.

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I am pleased to be able to combine my passion for nutrition & fitness with my love of children as a member of Pediatric Endocrine & Diabetes Specialists team.  I enjoy talking with children about their eating choices and behaviors, and helping to inspire them to view nutrition as fun, life-affirming, and a positive adventure.  I take pleasure helping families learn how to empower their children to be independent and capable eaters and to develop healthy and fun lifestyle behaviors that can last a lifetime. 

I have extensive experience working directly in pediatric community and clinical programs for infants, toddlers through adolescence, with a special interest in pediatric endocrine related conditions such as; obesity, failure to thrive, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, diabetes-type 1/type 2, and PCOS.  My past work at Yale School of Medicine Pediatric Endocrinology-Obesity, Diabetes, and Lipid Disorders Clinic gave me valuable skills, knowledge and experience. 

I am also skilled in assessing and working with children who have feeding & special needs issues, ADHD, autism, food allergies and restricted diets, gastrointestinal conditions, disordered eating, dietary deficiencies; and in addition provide specific education for sports nutrition, vegetarian meal planning... and more. 

I have spent over twenty years consulting with and working in child care, school, and teen center environments providing child health & nutrition assessments, family education, and program technical assistance. My accomplishments in early childhood education private, state, and federal programs have earned me the reputation as "nutrition mentor and expert" on infant, toddler, and preschool feeding. 

When not working with the Pediatric Endocrine & Diabetes Specialists team, I am enjoying my life in Wilton, CT with my husband who happens to be a fabulous cook and talented professional musician and my teen daughter, who in her own right has taught me so much about feeding infants, young children and teens.  I am also the business owner of "Nutritionally Speaking" --offering individual and workshop nutrition education.

Education:

B.A., Biology/Nutrition, Albertus Magnus College

M.S., Nutrition, Columbia University. 

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