Dr Julian Waung
Consultant Endocrinologist
Endocrinology
Sub-specialties: Type 1 & 2 Diabetes, Thyroid Disorders, Endocrine Disorders, Endocrinology, Bone Disorders, Fertility, Hypoparathyroidism.
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Overview
Dr Waung focuses primarily on bone health but also all endocrine problems including sex hormone deficiency fertility, diabetes, thyroid problems and hypoparathyroidism.
About Dr Julian Waung
Alongside his work at OneWelbeck, Dr Julian Waung is a Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology at the Whittington Hospital, London. Dr Waung set up a clinic at Whittington Health to treat the largest group of patient in the UK with Beta Thalassaemia major (a rare inherited red blood cell disorder). At this clinic, Dr Waung focuses primarily on bone health but also all endocrine problems including sex hormone deficiency fertility, diabetes, thyroid problems and hypoparathyroidism. He also runs an insulin pump clinic, and a young adult and adolescent diabetes clinic.
In 2018, Julian introduced Diasend, a digital tool for capillary blood glucose management and analysis.
In 2020 Julian Waung established the Thalassaemia Endocrinology Clinic at Whittington and the UCL Student Quality Improvement & Development Fund Award in 2020. In 2019 he received the Learning from Excellence Award: Fantastic and Compassionate from Whittington Health.
Areas of Expertise
Dr Waung specialises in:
- Diabetes
- Bone disorders
- Sex hormone deficiency
- Fertility
- Thyroid disorders
- Hypoparathyroidism
Additional Information
Languages
- Chinese
- English
- Italian
Research Highlights
Dr Julian Waung has a searchable library of Diabetes & Endocrinology Podcasts and been published in various journals, of which include:
- Successful management of a sporadic pancreatic insulinoma by endoscopic ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation. DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-104650;
- Real-life experience of tolvaptan use in the treatment of severe hyponatraemia due to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.DOI: 10.1111/cen.12943
- Adult mice lacking the type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase have increased subchondral bone but normal articular cartilage. DOI: 10.1089/thy.2014.0476;
- Quantitative X-ray microradiography for high-throughput phenotyping of osteoarthritis in mice. DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2014.04.015
- THRA and DIO2 mutations are unlikely to be a common cause of increased bone mineral density in euthyroid post-menopausal women. DOI: 10.1530/EJE-13-1009;
- Thyroid hormone metabolism in skeletal development and adult bone maintenance. DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2011.11.002
- Quantitative X-Ray Imaging of Mouse Bone by Faxitron. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8997-3_30
- Tyrosine kinase inhibitors in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer, In: Recent advances in endocrinology and diabetes (2017 JP Medical Ltd) Jackie A Gilbert, Julian A Waung, Kate Newbold, Edited by Amir Sam & Saira Hameed
- The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis: anatomy and physiology, In: Neuroendocrine Disorder in Children (2016 Mac Keith Press) Brassill M, Gogakos G, Logan J, Waung J, Williams G Edited by Mehul T Dattani, Peter C. Hindmarsh, Lucinda Carr and Iain C.A.F. Robinson.