
James W. Findling, MD, FACP
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
- Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
- Waukesha Memorial Hospital
- St. Agnes Hospital
- North Hills Health Center - Specialty Clinics
Specialties
- Endocrinology
Languages
- English
Contact Information
General Interests
Education
- MD - Doctor of Medicine
- FACP-Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Biography
Dr. James Findling is currently Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Medical School. He completed his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and his post-doctoral fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of California-San Francisco. He started his endocrinology practice at St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee in 1982 and he started the Endocrine-Diabetes Center at St. Luke's in 1987. Dr. Findling joined the full-time faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008.
He has over 100 publications and book chapters and is considered an international expert on clinical disorders of pituitary and adrenal function. He discovered the importance of inferior petrosal sinus sampling for the differential diagnosis of Cushing syndrome in the early 1980s and then introduced late-night salivary cortisol as a simple screening test for Cushing syndrome in the 1990s. He has served as visiting professor at many institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Johns Hopkins, and the Cleveland Clinic.
Education
- BS, University of Notre Dame
- MD, Northwestern University
- Internal Medicine Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin Endocrinology
- Fellowship, University of California-San Francisco
Leadership Positions
External
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Endocrine Society
- Member, Board of Directors, Cushing's Support and Research Foundation
Research Interests
- Diagnosis and management of Cushing syndrome and adrenal insufficiency
- Evaluation of adrenal hypertension particularly primary aldosteronism
- Assessment of adrenal nodular disease
Publications
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(Reincke M, Albani A, Assie G, Bancos I, Brue T, Buchfelder M, Chabre O, Ceccato F, Daniele A, Detomas M, Di Dalmazi G, Elenkova A, Findling J, Grossman AB, Gomez-Sanchez CE, Heaney AP, Honegger J, Karavitaki N, Lacroix A, Laws ER, Losa M, Murakami M, Newell-Price J, Giraldi FP, Pérez-Rivas LG, Pivonello R, Rainey WE, Sbiera S, Schopohl J, Stratakis CA, Theodoropoulou M, van Rossum EFC, Valassi E, Zacharieva S, Rubinstein G, Ritzel K.) Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 Mar;184(3):P1-P16 PMID: 33444221 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101102568 01/15/2021
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(Yuen KCJ, Mortensen MJ, Azadi A, Fonkem E, Findling JW.) Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. 2021 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102201015 01/01/2021
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(Kannankeril J, Carroll T, Findling JW, Javorsky B, Gunsolus IL, Phillips J, Raff H.) J Endocr Soc. 2020 Oct 01;4(10):bvaa107 PMID: 32935666 PMCID: PMC7480956 09/17/2020
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(Pivonello R, Fleseriu M, Newell-Price J, Bertagna X, Findling J, Shimatsu A, Gu F, Auchus R, Leelawattana R, Lee EJ, Kim JH, Lacroix A, Laplanche A, O'Connell P, Tauchmanova L, Pedroncelli AM, Biller BMK, LINC 3 investigators.) Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 09;8(9):748-761 PMID: 32730798 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089392530 07/31/2020
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(Yuen KCJ, Blevins LS Jr, Findling JW.) Endocr Pract. 2020 Aug;26(8):915-922 PMID: 33471683 PMCID: PMC7833469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100279923 01/21/2021
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(Wissner Greene L, Geer EB, Page-Wilson G, Findling JW, Raff H.) J Endocr Soc. 2020 Feb 01;4(2):bvz012 PMID: 32099949 PMCID: PMC7033035 02/27/2020
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A commentary on Diagnosing Cushing's disease in the context of renal failure.
(Raff H, Cohen EP, Findling JW.) Eur J Endocrinol. 2019 Oct;181(4):C9-C11 PMID: 31349218 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85072229843 07/28/2019
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(Greene LW, Geer EB, Page-Wilson G, Findling JW, Raff H.) J Endocr Soc. 2019 Apr 01;3(4):763-772 PMID: 30963134 PMCID: PMC6446888 04/10/2019
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(Guarda FJ, Findling J, Yuen KCJ, Fleseriu M, Nachtigall LB.) Journal of the Endocrine Society. 2019;3(9):1707-1714 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086582490 01/01/2019
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(Carroll TB, Peppard WJ, Herrmann DJ, Javorsky BR, Wang TS, Patel H, Zarnecki K, Findling JW.) J Endocr Soc. 2019 Jan 01;3(1):1-12 PMID: 30560224 PMCID: PMC6291660 12/19/2018
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(Findling JW, Raff H.) Eur J Endocrinol. 2018 03;178(3):L3 PMID: 29440268 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85044408048 02/15/2018
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Diagnosis and management of adrenal insufficiency
(He X, Findling JW, Auchus RJ.) Contemporary Endocrinology. 2018:199-215 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85065831062 01/01/2018