Ken Woeber, MD

Professor Emeritus

Education
M.D., 1957 - School of Medicine, University of Witwatersrand
Honors and Awards
  • 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
Websites
Publications
  1. Kim TY, Woeber KA, MacMaster HW, Rushakoff RJ. Peripheral IV Insulin Infusion Infiltration Presenting as "Insulin Resistance". Critical care medicine 2016. PMID: 27513542


  2. Woeber KA. 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. PMID: 27631669


  3. 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. PMID: 27295018


  4. Hennessey JV, Garber JR, Woeber KA, Cobin R, Klein I. 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. PMID: 26848631


  5. Hennessey JV, Klein I, Woeber KA, Cobin R, Garber JR. Aggressive case finding: a clinical strategy for the documentation of thyroid dysfunction. Annals of internal medicine 2015. PMID: 26280417


  6. Bernet V, Hupart KH, Parangi S, Woeber KA. 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. PMID: 24727662


  7. Woeber KA, White A, Kurtz TW. 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. PMID: 24126231


  8. Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA. In response. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2013. PMID: 24422223


  9. Cascino MD, McNabb B, Gardner DG, Woeber KA, Fox AN, Wang B, Fix OK. Acute liver failure with thyrotoxicosis treated with liver transplantation. Volume 19 of Issue 3. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2013. PMID: 23337142


  10. Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA. 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. PMID: 22954017


  11. Garber JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, Hennessey JV, Klein I, Mechanick JI, Pessah-Pollack R, Singer PA, Woeber KA. 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. PMID: 23246686


  12. Moalem J, Choi DX, Khanafshar E, Ruan DT, Woeber KA, Clark OH, Kebebew E. Metastatic papillary thyroid cancer misdiagnosed as non-small [corrected] cell lung cancer. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2011. PMID: 21254936


  13. Kebebew E, Lindsay S, Clark OH, Woeber KA, Hawkins R, Greenspan FS. 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. PMID: 19678746


  14. Woeber KA, Schwartz LK. 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. PMID: 18558592


  15. Kebebew E, Peng M, Reiff E, Treseler P, Woeber KA, Clark OH, Greenspan FS, Lindsay S, Duh QY, Morita E. A phase II trial of rosiglitazone in patients with thyroglobulin-positive and radioiodine-negative differentiated thyroid cancer. Surgery 2006. PMID: 17188145


  16. Woeber KA. Triiodothyronine production in Graves' hyperthyroidism. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2006. PMID: 16889493


  17. Woeber KA. Observations concerning the natural history of subclinical hyperthyroidism. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2005. PMID: 16053385


  18. Kebebew E, Greenspan FS, Clark OH, Woeber KA, Grunwell J. Extent of disease and practice patterns for medullary thyroid cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2005. PMID: 15922202


  19. Kebebew E, Greenspan FS, Clark OH, Woeber KA, McMillan A. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Treatment outcome and prognostic factors. Cancer 2005. PMID: 15739211


  20. Rushakoff RJ, Woeber KA. 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. PMID: 12917074


  21. Woeber KA. Methimazole-induced hepatotoxicity. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2002. PMID: 12467281


  22. Woeber KA. Levothyroxine therapy and serum free thyroxine and free triiodothyronine concentrations. Journal of endocrinological investigation 2002. PMID: 11929079


  23. Woeber KA. Update on the management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Archives of family medicine 2000. PMID: 10927715


  24. Woeber KA. Update on the management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Archives of internal medicine 2000. PMID: 10789598


  25. Woeber KA. The year in review: the thyroid. Annals of internal medicine 1999. PMID: 10610648


  26. Woeber KA, Warner I. Potentiation of warfarin sodium by amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis. The Western journal of medicine 1999. PMID: 9926737


  27. Woeber KA. Subclinical thyroid dysfunction. Archives of internal medicine 1997. PMID: 9164371


  28. Woeber KA. Diagnostic enigmas in thyroid disease. The Western journal of medicine 1996. PMID: 8775740


  29. Woeber KA. Hyperthyroidism. Annals of internal medicine 1995. PMID: 7847656


  30. Woeber KA. Thyrotoxicosis and cardiac disease. Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians 1993. PMID: 8137044


  31. Woeber KA. Thyrotoxicosis and the heart. The New England journal of medicine 1992. PMID: 1603141


  32. Woeber KA. Peripheral thyroid hormone metabolism in humans. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 1990. PMID: 2135980


  33. Woeber KA. Aging and the thyroid. The Western journal of medicine 1985. PMID: 4082572


  34. Goldfine ID, Maddux B, Woeber KA. Effect of amiodarone on L-triiodothyronine stimulation of [3H] thymidine incorporation into GH3 cells. Journal of endocrinological investigation 1982. PMID: 7108152


  35. Woeber KA, Maddux BA. Thyroid hormone binding in nonthyroid illness. Metabolism: clinical and experimental 1981. PMID: 6163064


  36. Woeber KA. Sulfhydryl group modulation and triiodothyronine generation in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1980. PMID: 7372782


  37. Woeber KA. L-triiodothyronine and L-reverse-triiodothyronine generation in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte. The Journal of clinical investigation 1978. PMID: 690186


  38. Woeber KA. Observations concerning the binding of L-triiodothyronine in the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1977. PMID: 188862


  39. Woeber KA, Doherty GF, Ingbar SH. Metabolism of L-thyroxine by phagocytosing peritoneal macrophages. Endocrinology 1974. PMID: 4813688


  40. Martin DW, Woeber KA. Renal cystic disease. California medicine 1973. PMID: 4755693


  41. Woeber KA, Ingbar SH. Metabolism of L-thyroxine by phagocytosing human leukocytes. The Journal of clinical investigation 1973. PMID: 4719661


  42. Martin D, Woeber KA, Smith LH. Progressive systemic sclerosis. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". California medicine 1973. PMID: 4726949


  43. DeRubertis FR, Woeber KA. Accelerated cellular uptake and metabolism of L-thyroxine during acute Salmonella typhimurium sepsis. The Journal of clinical investigation 1973. PMID: 4629910


  44. Woeber KA, Doherty GF, Ingbar SH. Stimulation by phagocytosis of the deiodination of L-thyroxine in human leukocytes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1972. PMID: 5033182


  45. 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. PMID: 5014612


  46. Yamamoto T, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH. The influence of salicylate on serum TSH concentration in patients with primary hypothyroidism. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1972. PMID: 5059773


  47. Woeber KA, Hecker E, Ingbar SH. The effects of an acute load of thyroxine on the transport and peripheral metabolism of triiodothyronine in man. The Journal of clinical investigation 1970. PMID: 4986213


  48. Woeber KA, Sobel RJ, Ingbar SH, Sterling K. The peripheral metabolism of triiodothyronine in normal subjects and in patients with hyperthyroidism. The Journal of clinical investigation 1970. PMID: 5467580


  49. Braverman LE, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH. Induction of myxedema by iodide in patients euthyroid after radioiodin or surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter. The New England journal of medicine 1969. PMID: 4980221


  50. Beisel WR, Woeber KA, Bartelloni PJ, Ingbar SH. Growth hormone response during sandfly fever. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 1968. PMID: 4970956


  51. Braverman LE, Socolow EL, 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. PMID: 4968525


  52. Woeber KA, Arky RA. Sugar, fat, and the pill. Annals of internal medicine 1967. PMID: 6016557


  53. Abramson EA, Arky RA, Woeber KA. Effects of propranolol on the hormonal and metabolic responses to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia. Lancet (London, England) 1966. PMID: 4163545


  54. Woeber KA, Arky R, Braverman LE. Reversal by guanethidine of abnormal oral glucose tolerance in thyrotoxicosis. Lancet (London, England) 1966. PMID: 4159618


  55. Braverman LE, Woeber KA, Ingbar SH. An unusual case of Cushing's syndrome. The New England journal of medicine 1965. PMID: 5844230


  56. Woeber KA, Arky R. Hypoglycaemia as the result of isolated corticotrophin-deficiency. British medical journal 1965. PMID: 4283983


  57. Socolow EL, Woeber KA, Purdy RH, Holloway MT, Ingbar SH. Preparation of I-131-labeled human serum prealbumin and its metabolism in normal and sick patients. The Journal of clinical investigation 1965. PMID: 5840530


  58. WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH. OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE THYROXINE-BINDING SITE OF PREALBUMIN IN HUMAN SERUM. Endocrinology 1964. PMID: 14236101


  59. WOEBER KA, BARAKAT RM, 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. PMID: 14230014


  60. WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH. THE EFFECTS OF NONCALORIGENIC CONGENERS OF SALICYLATE ON THE PERIPHERAL METABOLISM OF THYROXINE. The Journal of clinical investigation 1964. PMID: 14169522


  61. WOEBER KA, REID EL, KIEM I, HILLS AG. DIFFUSION OF GASES OUT OF THE DISTAL NEPHRONSEGMENT IN MAN. I. NH3. The Journal of clinical investigation 1963. PMID: 14083160


  62. WOEBER KA, INGBAR SH. Effect of salicylate on the binding of thyroxine by human serum proteins at pH 7.4. Endocrinology 1963. PMID: 14001449


  63. HILLS AG, WOEBER KA. The syndrome of intrathoracic neoplasia with bilateral hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex. Annals of internal medicine 1961. PMID: 13714383