SDMG adds to its endocrinology department

Jason Sloane will be joining the endocrinology department at Slocum-Dickson Medical Group in New Hartford on July 15.

As a specialist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, he cares for patients with various forms of diabetes, including Type 1 and Type 2, as well as diabetes related to obesity, checkpoint inhibitors, surgery, or steroid treatment.

His practice includes the care of patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, hypothyroidism, Grave’s disease, thyroid nodules, acromegaly, Cushing’s disease, hormone deficiency or excess due to pituitary adenomas, testosterone deficiency, menopause, hyperlipidemia, and osteoporosis.

Sloane completed his fellowship in fndocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He served as chief medical resident during the final year of his internal medicine residency at Albany Medical Center.

Sloane earned his medical degree from Duke University and his master’s degree in neuroscience from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

He is a member of the American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society.

From September of 2015 to July of 2016, Sloane served as editor-in-chief of the Albany Medical Review.

He has authored several peer-reviewed research articles as well as professional educational material for providers and patients. In 2015, he was awarded the Albany Medical Center Award for Compassionate Patient Care.