Ruchi Mathur, MD, FRCP(C) is an Attending Physician with the
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Associate
Director of Clinical Research, Recruitment and Phenotyping with
the Center for Androgen Related Disorders, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Robert
Ferry Jr., MD, is a U.S. board-certified Pediatric
Endocrinologist. After taking his baccalaureate degree from Yale
College, receiving his doctoral degree and residency training in
pediatrics at University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio (UTHSCSA), he completed fellowship training in pediatric
endocrinology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. One of
the minerals that is important in the regulation and processes
of many body functions including bone formation, hormone
release, muscle contraction, and nerve and brain function is
calcium. If levels of calcium in the body are elevated above
what is considered normal, this is referred to as hypercalcemia.
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