Sara E. Lubitz, MD

Sara Lubitz, MD is an Associate Professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she serves as Program Director for the Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship. She earned her medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (formerly UMDNJ) and completed Internal Medicine residency, chief residency, and Endocrinology fellowship at New York University. Areas of clinical interest include pituitary, thyroid and adrenal disease. She serves as Medical Director of the Pituitary Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and runs clinical trials in Acromegaly, Cushing’s disease and hypoparathyroidism. Dr. Lubitz is a member of the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and is the Chair of the AACE Fellows Education subcommittee working on supporting endocrine fellows-in-training as future clinicians and colleagues.

Publications:

Watari J, Vekaria S, Lin Y, Patel M, Kim H, Kang F, Lubitz S, Beninato T, Laird AM. Radiology report language positively influences adrenal incidentaloma guideline adherence. Am J Surg. 2021 Jun 29:S0002-9610(21)00346-9. Teresa Brown and Sara Lubitz. Lymphocytic Hypophysitis in the Elderly: A case presentation and review of the literature. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. 2017 June Vol 8. 43-49 Anupa Sharma, Eric K. Richfield and Sara E.Lubitz. Acromegaly occurring in a patient with a Pituitary Adenoma, Lymphocytic Hypophysitis, and a Rathke's Cleft Cyst. AACE Clinical Case Reports. Vol 3 No. 2 Spring 2017. Ramy Sedhom, MD; Sophia Hu, MD; Anupam Ohri, MD; Dorian Infantino, MD; Sara Lubitz, MD. Symptomatic Cushing's Syndrome and Hyperandrogenemia in a Steroid Cell Ovarian Neoplasm: A Unique Therapeutic Challenge. J Med Case Rep. 2016 Oct 12;10(1):278 Pettit AP, Kipen H, Laumbach R, Ohman-Strickland P, Kelly-McNeill K, Cepeda C, Fan ZH, Amorosa L, Lubitz S, Schneider S, Gow A. Disrupted Nitric Oxide Metabolism from Type II Diabetes and Acute Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution.PLoS One. 2015 Dec 14;10(12) Sophia Hu, Seena C. Aisner, and Sara E. Lubitz. Cinacalcet for Management of Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism Associated with Chronic Treatment of Hypophosphatemia in an Adult with Tumor-Induced Osteomalacia. AACE Clinical Case Reports: Autumn 2015, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. e225-e229 Zhang Z, Amorosa LF, Coyle SM, Macor MA, Lubitz SE, Carson JL, Birnbaum MJ, Lee LY, Haimovich B. Proteolytic Cleavage of AMPKα and Intracellular MMP9 Expression Are Both Required for TLR4-Mediated mTORC1 Activation and HIF-1α Expression in Leukocytes. J Immunol. 2015 Jul 31 Singh B, Smith JA, Axelrod DM, Ameri P, Levitt H, Danoff A, Lesser M, de Angelis C, Illa-Bochaca I, Lubitz S, Huberman D, Darvishian F, Kleinberg DL. Insulin-like growth factor-I inhibition with pasireotide decreases cell proliferation and increases apoptosis in pre-malignant lesions of the breast: a phase 1 proof of principle trial. Breast Cancer Res. 2014 Nov 11;16(6):463 Chaudhry S, Lubitz S, Danoff A. Adenomatoid Tumor of the Adrenal Gland: Case Report of a Rare Adrenal Lesion. The Endocrinologist. 2009. 19(5):233-236.