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Barrow Pituitary Center

The Barrow Pituitary Center provides comprehensive care for patients with pituitary tumors and other neuroendocrine disorders. A multidisciplinary team approach is used to provide evaluation, diagnostic testing and medical and/or surgical treatment of patients with neuroendocrine disorders. The neuroendocrine team meets regularly to review patient care, to plan treatment, and to evaluate outcomes.

William L. White, MD, FACS
Chief of Surgical Endocrinology,
Division of Neurological Surgery
Medical Director,
Barrow Pituitary Center

Members of the neuroendocrine team include specialists in endocrinology, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, and radiation oncology. The team frequently collaborates with specialists in gynecology, neuropsychology, nutrition, ophthalmology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric neurosurgery, and reproductive endocrinology.

The Barrow Pituitary Center collaborates with the following departments within St. Joseph's Hospital and Barrow Neurological Institute to provide a full spectrum of neuroendocrine services:

Barrow CyberKnife Center
Barrow Gamma Knife Center
Barrow Skull Base Center
St. Joseph's Hospital Radiation Oncology Department
Neurobiology Research Laboratory
St. Joseph's Hospital Laboratory
Barrow Neuropathology Department
Neuroradiology Imaging Department
Barrow Endovascular Department for inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS)

Educational Programs

The Barrow Pituitary Center offers a variety of educational programs. Neurosurgical faculty at Barrow train neurosurgical residents to perform transsphenoidal surgery and to treat pituitary disorders during their Pituitary rotation on the pituitary service. In addition, endocrinology fellows from the Phoenix City-Wide Endocrinology and Metabolism Fellowship program also rotate through the Barrow Pituitary Center.

A neuroendocrine clinical conference provides a monthly format for the team to collaborate on difficult pituitary tumors and other neuroendocrine disorders.