Florence Comite

Florence Comite, MD
Comite in 2014
Born	Florence Comite
Occupation(s)	Physician, endocrinologist
Employer(s)	Comite Center for Precision Medicine & Healthy Longevity, Northwell Health [1]
Known for	Associate Clinical Professor Yale University School of Medicine
Website	Official website

Florence Comite is an American endocrinologist ^[2] who has helped develop new therapies for osteoporosis, endometriosis, fibroid disease, and infertility. ^[3] She was awarded a patent in 1989 for developing a new method of determining fertility in women using clomifene. ^[4]

In 1990, Comite was awarded a second patent for the use of Clomifene to increase bone mass in premenopausal women. ^[5] Alongside her work in precision medicine and integrated medical analysis, she is also known for founding Women's Health at Yale in 1992. ^{[6] [7]} Comite is known for her work in clinical hormone research, and as the founder of Women's Health at Yale in the early 1990s.

Field of study

Comite is known for having an integrated approach to health care delivery using precision medicine. ^{[8] [9]} She has researched hormonal changes and aging, and in particular, issues of Hypogonadism (Low T) in men and how it impacts the onset of certain associated diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. ^[10]

Her research involves studying delivery systems and how they impact health outcomes; it has been her focus as a Senior Clinical and Research Adviser to the Offices of Alternative Medicine (OAM) at NIH. ^[11]

Education and early career

Comite graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Yale University School of Medicine; she was an associate clinical professor on the Yale faculty for 25 years; She founded Women's Health at Yale in 1988. ^[12] Comite completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology, incorporating training in Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Andrology, ^[13] at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH. In early 1980, she was researching the use of Gonadotropin-releasing hormones to treat precocious puberty. ^{[14] [15]}

Comite had researched in the area of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). ^[16]

Comite has served on advisory councils and committees with the NIH, the Egyptian Ministry of Health, and on the Balance Documentary Medical Advisory Board, ^[17] the Age Management Medicine Group, Independent Doctors of New York, ^[18] and the American Fertility Society as well as Alpha Omega Alpha. ^[19]

Awards

Alan P. Mintz, MD Award for Clinical Excellence in Age Management Medicine, 2013. ^[12]

References

1. "Florence Comite, MD". Northwell Health.
2. "Male Menopause Crisis Finds Solutions In Hormone Optimization Program". Red Orbit. April 24, 2007. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
3. "Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States: Committee members". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. National Institute for Health. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
4. Andrews, Edmund (April 29, 1989). "Patents; A Method to Determine Fertility in Women". New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
5. Yale, University. "Use of clomiphene to increase bone mass in premenopausal women '13 Nov 1990'". Justia Patents. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
6. Dunkel, Tom (January 15, 2010). "Vigor Quest". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
7. Curtis, John (December 11, 2013). "Florence Comite, MD'76, honored for hormone research". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
8. Hutkin, Erinn (January 7, 2014). "Hormone therapies help older adults find new life". UT San Diego.
9. Langille, Jane (March 20, 2014). "Low T: Separating Facts From Frenzy low-testosterone". MedShadow.
10. Florence Comite, Janet Baek. "Hormonal Expression of Androgen Decline in Aging Men (ADAM)". Male Reproductive Endocrinology & Case Reports Clinical. The Endocrine Society. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
11. "Late Nights with Jim Bohannon". The Jim Bohannon Show. December 13, 2013. Archived from the original on May 20, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
12. Curtis, John (December 11, 2013). "Florence Comite, M.D.'76, recognized for hormone research". Yale Alumni Journal. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
13. Urist, Jacoba (October 21, 2013). "Men Have Biological Clocks, Too". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
14. Comite, Florence; Cutler, Gordon B.; Rivier, Jean; Vale, Wylie W.; Loriaux, D. Lynn; Crowley, William F. (December 24, 1981). "Short-Term Treatment of Idiopathic Precocious Puberty with a Long-Acting Analogue of Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone". New England Journal of Medicine. 305 (26): 1546–1550. doi:10.1056/NEJM198112243052602. PMID   6458765.
15. Sonis, William A; Florence Comite; ORA H. PESCOVITZ; KAREN HENCH; CHARLES W. RAHN; GORDON B. CUTLER Jr.; D L LORIAUX; ROBERT P. KLEIN (May 28, 1985). "Biobehavioral Aspects of Precocious Puberty" . Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry. 25 (5): 674–679. doi:10.1016/s0002-7138(09)60293-4. PMID   3760417.
16. Prevention, Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public, Board on Health Promotion and Disease (2004). Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Washington, DC: National Academies Press. p.  321. ISBN   978-0-309-09270-8.
17. Richards, Avis. "Balance Documentary". Birds Nest Foundation. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
18. "New York Superdoctors" (PDF). Independent Doctors of New York: IDNY.org. May 19, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
19. "Alpha Omega Alpha". Directory. Alpha Omega Alpha. Retrieved April 2, 2014.