Vibha Singhal

I attended medical school at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the top medical school in India. While at AIIMS I gained a great deal of clinical experience and afterwards decided to continue my training in the United States. After some early laboratory experience, I started my residency training at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. While at the Mayo Clinic, I had the pleasure of learning and practicing clinical pediatrics in a state of the art medical center. I was able to pursue research through infrastructure and resources that had previously been unavailable to me and my training and research during this time solidified my passion for research in pediatric obesity.

I subsequently joined the fellowship program at The Massachusetts General Hospital which provided a sound base of clinical knowledge. Here I continue to practice and learn from the world's leading providers and researchers. My own research focuses on evaluating regional fat depots. I am interested in associations between visceral, subcutaneous, marrow and brown fat and how changes to these fat depots relates to bone accrual. I have presented my research at national and international meetings. I recently received federal funding to evaluate the changes in function of the pancreas after weight loss surgery (particularly sleeve gastrectomy) in adolescents. My long term goal is to develop personalized therapies for extreme obesity in adolescents.

Clinical Interests:

• Adolescent menstrual disorders
• Adrenal disorders
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bone and mineral metabolism
• Diabetes
• Diabetes mellitus type 1
• Diabetes mellitus type 2
• Endocrinology
• Growth and nutritional disorders
• Obesity and weight management
• Pediatric endocrinology
• Pituitary disorders
• Pituitary tumors
• Pubertal disorders
• Thyroid disorders

Medical Education

• Residency, Mayo Clinic
• Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital

American Board Certifications

• Pediatric Endocrinology, American Board of Pediatrics
• Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics