Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Stanley is a pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Pediatric Endocrine Division as well as the Metabolism Unit. Her research centers on better understanding hormonal, metabolic and body composition abnormalities in obesity and HIV-infection, as well as metabolic and hormonal underpinnings of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). She also has a strong interest in pathogenesis and management of obesity and fatty liver disease in children. She has published on effects of growth hormone releasing analogue to reduce ectopic fat deposition in the visceral adipose depot and in the liver. She is principal investigator of an NIH R01-funded project further exploring this theme. Dr. Stanley serves as program director of Mass General's Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship. Additionally, through the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard, Dr. Stanley serves as Associate Director of the Center, director of the Pilot and Feasibility Program, and co-director of the Diversity Scholars Program.