Dr Aparna Pal

Qualifications

FRCP, DPhil

GMC number: 4731351

Practising since: 2000

Specialties

Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus

Consultation times

  • Monday 5pm - 8pm
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About

Dr Pal is a Consultant Endocrinologist and Acute Physician in Oxford. She currently leads the busy Pituitary Endocrinology Service at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at Churchill Hospital, and sees private patients at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital, Oxford. She regularly treats pituitary, adrenal, thyroid, and parathyroid disorders and has joint clinics with neurosurgery and paediatrics.

Dr Pal trained at Oxford University Medical School and qualified in 2000. She then completed her specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology in Oxford and achieved a PhD. Before her appointment in Oxford, she was a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

She is a Clinical Tutor for Oxford University Medical School and an Examiner for the Final BM Exams. Dr Pal is also the clinical director of specialist medicine at OUHFT.

Special interests

Endocrinology - pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, reproductive.

Personal interests

  • Pituitary endocrinology
  • Adrenal

Treatments and tests offered by Dr Aparna Pal at Nuffield Health

  • Blood test
  • Endocrine investigations
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
  • Endocrine

Locations Dr Aparna Pal works with

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    Beech Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7RP

    01865 307777
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Research

Recovery of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis following trans-sphenoidal adenomectomy for non-ACTH secreting macroadenomas.

Pofi R, Gunatilake S, Macgregor V, Shine B, Joseph R, Grossman AB, Isidori AM, Cudlip S, Jafar-Mohammadi B, Tomlinson JW, Pal A.

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Jun 21. pii: jc.2019-00406. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00406.

Pituitary adenomas.

Pal A, Leaver L, Wass J.

BMJ. 2019 Jun 6;365:l2091. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l2091.

Pituitary gigantism: a rare learning opportunity.

Bendor-Samuel OM, Pal A, Cudlip S, Anderson G, Salgia S, Makaya T.

Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2019 Apr 4. pii: edpract-2018-316282. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316282.

Plurihormonal Pit-1 lineage adenoma presenting as meningitis with recurrence after somatostatin analogue.

Olmedilla Y, Khan S, Young V, Joseph R, Cudlip S, Ansgorge O, Grossman A, Pal A.

Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep. 2019 Mar 21;2019. pii: EDM180130. doi: 10.1530/EDM-18-0130.

 Clinical, Endocrine and Imaging Characteristics of Patients with Primary Hypophysitis.

Angelousi A, Cohen C, Sosa S, Danilowicz K, Papanastasiou L, Tsoli M, Pal A, Piaditis G, Grossman A, Kaltsas G.

Horm Metab Res. 2018 Apr;50(4):296-302. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-101036. Epub 2018 Feb 19.

Transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumours: frequency and predictors of delayed hyponatraemia and their relationship to early readmission.

Krogh J, Kistorp CN, Jafar-Mohammadi B, Pal A, Cudlip S, Grossman A.

Eur J Endocrinol. 2018 Mar;178(3):247-253. doi: 10.1530/EJE-17-0879. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

Routine genetic screening with a multi-gene panel in patients with pheochromocytomas.

Sbardella E, Cranston T, Isidori AM, Shine B, Pal A, Jafar-Mohammadi B, Sadler G, Mihai R, Grossman AB.

Endocrine. 2018 Jan;59(1):175-182. doi: 10.1007/s12020-017-1310-9. Epub 2017 May 5.

Loss-of-Function Mutations in the Cell-Cycle Control Gene CDKN2A Impact on Glucose Homeostasis in Humans.

Pal A, Potjer TP, Thomsen SK, Ng HJ, Barrett A, Scharfmann R, James TJ, Bishop DT, Karpe F, Godsland IF, Vasen HF, Newton-Bishop J, Pijl H, McCarthy MI, Gloyn AL.

Diabetes. 2016 Feb;65(2):527-33. doi: 10.2337/db15-0602. Epub 2015 Nov 5.

The genetics of type 2 diabetes and its clinical relevance.

Pal A, McCarthy MI.

Clin Genet. 2013 Apr;83(4):297-306. doi: 10.1111/cge.12055. Epub 2012 Dec 4. Review.

PTEN mutations as a cause of constitutive insulin sensitivity and obesity.

Pal A, Barber TM, Van de Bunt M, Rudge SA, Zhang Q, Lachlan KL, Cooper NS, Linden H, Levy JC, Wakelam MJ, Walker L, Karpe F, Gloyn AL.

N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 13;367(11):1002-11. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1113966.

Systematic assessment of etiology in adults with a clinical diagnosis of young-onset type 2 diabetes is a successful strategy for identifying maturity-onset diabetes of the young.

Thanabalasingham G, Pal A, Selwood MP, Dudley C, Fisher K, Bingley PJ, Ellard S, Farmer AJ, McCarthy MI, Owen KR.

Diabetes Care. 2012 Jun;35(6):1206-12. doi: 10.2337/dc11-1243. Epub 2012 Mar 19.

Pituitary apoplexy in non-functioning pituitary adenomas: long term follow up is important because of significant numbers of tumour recurrences.

Pal A, Capatina C, Tenreiro AP, Guardiola PD, Byrne JV, Cudlip S, Karavitaki N, Wass JA.

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2011 Oct;75(4):501-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04068.x.


Memberships

  • British Medical Association
  • Society for Endocrinology
  • Medical Protection Society

Other posts held

  • OUHFT Consultant Endocrinologist and Actue Physician, Clinical Director for Specialist Medicine

Insurers Dr Aparna Pal works with

Dr Aparna Pal works with the following private medical insurance providers:

  • Aetna
  • Aviva Health
  • AXA Health
  • AXA - Global Healthcare
  • Bupa
  • Cigna
  • Cigna International
  • Healix
  • Tri-Care
  • Vitality Health (Pru Health)
  • WPA

Declaration

Dr Aparna Pal does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Dr Aparna Pal does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Dr Aparna Pal does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.