Grace Tannin, MD

Associate Professor
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

grace.tannin@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Biography

Dr. Tannin joined UT Southwestern in 1997 and is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric endocrinology. Dr. Tannin holds undergraduate and medical degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. She continued her research as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Inherited Disorders of Energy Metabolism and the Metabolism Training Program at Case Western Reserve University. During that time she was associated with the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Tannin is an attending physician at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and is on staff at its Endocrinology Center, where she not only treats patients in a teaching environment, but also participates in clinical trials. One pharmaceutical study aims to gather information to study genetics and neuroendocrinology in children with short stature. Dr. Tannin has received a number of awards and honors including the Searle Young Investigator Award in 1991 and the Charles H. Revson Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences from 1989-1991. She received the Aesculapius award from the St. Paul Family Practice Program for excellence in teaching Pediatrics in 2001. She is a member of the Lawson-Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and The Endocrine Society. She sits on the American Diabetes Association Dallas Leadership Council, and has served as the Medical Director of the ADA’s New Horizons day camp for the past 4 years.

Education

FellowshipCase Western Reserve University (1997)
FellowshipNew York Hospital (1991)
ResidencyColumbia Presbyterian Medical Center - NY (1988)
Medical SchoolWashington University School of Medicine (1985)

Publications

Featured
Defects in the HSD11 gene encoding 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase are not found in patients with apparent mineralocorticoid excess or 11-oxoreductase deficiency

Nikkila H. Tannin GM. New MI. Taylor NF. Kalaitzoglou G. Monder C. White PC. , Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , September 1993; (77(3)):687-91

Featured
The human gene for 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Structure, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization

Tannin GM. Agarwal AK. Monder C. New MI. White PC. , Journal of Biological Chemistry , September 1991; (266(25)):16653-8

Featured
Genotype of Yupik Eskimos with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency

Speiser PW. New MI. Tannin GM. Pickering D. Yang SY. White PC. , Human Genetics , March 1992; (88(6)):647-8

Featured
Genetic analysis of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

White PC. Obeid J. Agarwal AK. Tannin GM. Nikkila H. , Steroids , February 1994; (59(2)):111-5

Featured
Short stature and growth hormone therapy. A national study of physician recommendation patterns

Cuttler L. Silvers JB. Singh J. Marrero U. Finkelstein B. Tannin G. Neuhauser D. , Journal of the American Medical Association , August 1996; (276(7)):531-7

Congenital hyperreninemic hypoaldosteronism unlinked to the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene

Kayes-Wandover KM. Tannin GM. Shulman D. Peled D. Jones KL. Karaviti L. White PC. , Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , November 2001; (86(11)):5379-82

Honors/Awards

Aesculapius Award for Teaching Pediatrics

St. Paul Family Practice Program (2001)

Searle Young Investigator Award

(1991)

President’s Poster Session Participant

Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society (1990)

Charles H. Revson Fellow in Biomedical Sciences

(1989)

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for Graduate Study

(1981)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society

The Endocrine Society