Rachel I. Gafni MD

Dr. Rachel I. Gafni received her BA from Barnard College and her MD from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia followed by a pediatric endocrinology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), serving as an officer in the United States Public Health Service from 1996-2002. She subsequently served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland for 5 years.

Dr. Gafni returned to the NIH in 2007 as an investigator in the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She is faculty in the NIH Pediatric Endocrinology and NIH Inter-institute Adult Endocrinology Training Programs. Dr. Gafni is a principal or associate investigator investigator on several research protocols treating patients with endocrine disorders including hypoparathyroidism, osteoporosis, McCune-Albright Syndrome, hypophosphatemic rickets, tumor-induced osteomalacia, hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis, generalized arterial calcification of infancy, and other metabolic bone diseases.