Stanley Korenman, M.D.

Professor, Medicine

Associate Dean for Ethics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA


Dr. Korenman was a Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search Finalist. He Graduated from Princeton, Summa Cum Laude and attended medical school at Columbia, P&S. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine at Bellevue and Memorial Hospitals in New York. He became a Clinical Associate and Senior Investigator in the Endocrinology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (now CHD). He joined the UCLA faculty in 1966 at Harbor General Hospital as Assistant and then Associate Professor. He moved to the University of Iowa in 1970 where he was Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry only to return to UCLA as Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the newly formed San Fernando Valley Program and Chief of Medicine at the Sepulveda VA Medical Center. During that time he also developed and directed the UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program and became Associate Dean. He moved to the Center for the Health Sciences as Associate Dean for Educational Development and then became Chief of Endocrinolgy of the program at the Center for the Health Sciences. At present he is Associate Dean for Ethics with a special interest in research ethics and directs the Research Subject Advocacy program of the General Clinical Research Center. During most of his career he has continued an active practice in endocrinology with a focus on reproductive endocrinology from the internists perspective. During the course of his career he has been active in the Endocrine Society


Dr. Korenman has three major areas of research interest. In endocrinology he is interested in the endocrine changes occurring with Polycystic Ovary Disorder (PCOS) and its treatment. He is also conducting a study of the long-term effects of treatment with growth hormone of growth hormone-deficient persons. He is also interested in research ethics and is studying informed consents. He has longstanding interests in the hormone changes occurring with aging in both men and women.