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Amrit Bhangoo

Amrit Bhangoo

•Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine
•Section Chair of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

Biography

Amrit Bhangoo, M.D., is Section Chair of Endocrinology and Director of Research in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UC Irvine School of Medicine. Bhangoo received an MBBS (Doctor of Medicine) from Guru Govind Singh Medical College in Punjab, India, and completed pediatric residency and pediatric endocrinology fellowship training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Bhangoo is board certified in both general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology, and has served as Site Director for the UC Irvine Adult Endocrinology Fellowship Program at CHOC.

Bhangoo's research focuses on genetic disorders affecting growth, metabolism, and endocrine function, with particular emphasis on Noonan syndrome, monogenic diabetes, early-onset obesity, and rare forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Bhangoo has authored a textbook on Noonan syndrome published by Elsevier and has contributed to understanding the molecular genetics of conditions including steroidogenic acute regulatory protein mutations, growth hormone receptor defects, and disorders of sex development. Bhangoo has served as principal investigator on multiple research projects examining insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome in children, and growth hormone therapy outcomes.

Bhangoo has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 100 conference abstracts, and serves as Editor for Frontiers in Pediatrics: Pediatric Endocrinology. Bhangoo has been recognized as an OC Physician of Excellence for three consecutive years (2023-2025) and has received multiple research awards including the Maimonides Research Foundation Grant for Monogenic Diabetes and the Reader's Choice Award from the European Journal of Endocrinology. Bhangoo is a member of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the Endocrine Society, and the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology, and serves on the board of the Human Growth Foundation.

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Education

  • MBBS in Medicine, Guru Govind Singh Medical College, Faridkot, Punjab India, 1999
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Distinctions

  • Reader's choice award to publication, European Journal of Endocrinology, 2019
  • Presidential award, ENDO society meeting, 2022
  • Top 20 poster award, ESPE meeting, 2022
  • Presidential Award, PES meeting, 2024
  • First Prize for Best abstract and oral presentation, 2nd Annual World Congress on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome, 2004
  • Five Star Abstract, American Diabetes Association 64th Scientific Sessions, 2004
  • 3rd prize abstract, 4th Heart in Diabetes Conference, 2020
  • Maimonides Research Foundation Grant for Monogenic Diabetes, 2011-2013
  • Best Clinical Research Paper Award, Maimonides Research Day, 2006
  • OC Physicians of Excellence, 2023-2025
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Areas of Expertise

  • Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Noonan Syndrome Genetics
  • Growth Hormone Therapy
  • Monogenic Diabetes
  • Early Onset Obesity
  • Insulin Resistance Mechanisms
  • Glucocorticoid Receptor Sensitivity

Recent Publications

  • Ten S, Bhangoo A, Buettner C, “Tirzepatide for Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy” (opens in new tab), N Engl J Med, vol. 392, no. 7, pp. 717-719, 2025.
  • Ghanny S, Aisenberg JE, Heinemann J, Ten S, Bhangoo A, “A Report of 3 Cases of Adrenal Suppression Due to Glucocorticoid Hypersensitivity to Inhaled Corticosteroids” (opens in new tab), JCEM Case Rep, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. luaf039, 2025.
  • M Berra, A Bayoumy, E Volcotrub, S Ten, A Bhangoo, “Presence of Genetic Variants in Early Onset Obesity Impacts the Response to GLP-1 and GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Agonists”, 2025. Presented at PES, May 15-18 2025.
  • Amrit Bhangoo, Svetlana Ten, “Genetic variations in Monogenic Diabetes or Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) and Treatment outcomes”, 2024. Presented at APPES - ISPAE Joint Meeting, the 13th Biennial Scientific Meeting of APPES, Oct 5, 2024.
  • Madalin Berra, Andy Lin, Kapila Patel, Maresha Stamps, Amrit Bhangoo, “Phenotypes of Obese Patients with Heterozygous Semaphorin or Ciliopathy Variations Compared to Those with No Identified Variations”, 2024. Presented at PES meeting, May 2-5 2024.
  • Laurel Gordon, Timothy Flannery, Amrit Bhangoo, “Predicted Adult Height Outcomes and Relation to Final Adult Height in Children with Isolated Idiopathic Growth Hormone Deficiency Treated with rhGH Therapy”, 2024. Presented at PES meeting, May 2-5 2024.
  • Julianne Bullock, Amrit Bhangoo, “Height after Growth Hormone Therapy and Accuracy of Adult Height Prediction in Patients with Noonan Syndrome”, 2024. Presented at PES meeting, May 2-5 2024.
  • M Caprile, M Berra, D Dreimane, H Kashmiri, S Kadakia, M Daniels, A Bhangoo, “Phenotypic and Metabolic Characteristics of Children with Early Onset Obesity and Heterozygous Bardet Biedl Syndrome (BBS) Genes Variations”, 2023. Presented at PES meeting, May 5-7th 2023.
  • M Masood, M Ten, E Volcotrub, A Bhangoo, “High Frequency of Diabetes and Neurobehavioral Disorders in Patients with Morbid Obesity with SH2B1 Gene Polymorphisms”, 2023. Presented at PES meeting, May 5-7th 2023.
  • J Bullock, A Lin, B Duong, A Bhangoo, “Height Characteristics and Growth Hormone Therapy response in PTPN11 codon 308 mutations in Noonan syndrome”, 2023. Presented at PES meeting, May 5-7th 2023.
  • M Berra, A Khattab, S Ten, A Bhangoo, “Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Morbid Obesity with Semaphorines (SEMA3D,E,G) and PLXNA3&4 gene Variants”, 2023. Presented at ENDO, Chicago, Jun 15-17th 2023.
  • B Duong, Khoa Vu, A Bhangoo, “Predicted Adult Height Outcomes and Relation to Final Adult Height in Children with Isolated Idiopathic Growth Hormone Deficiency Treated with rhGH Therapy”, 2023. Presented at ENDO, Chicago, Jun 15-17th 2023.
  • Maharaj Vedatta, Amrit Bhangoo, Egor Volcotrub, Divya Khurana, Javier Aisenberg, Svetlana Ten, “PCSK1Heterozygous Gene Polymorphisms are Associated with Early Onset Morbid Childhood Class III Obesity Across Diverse Ethnic Groups”, 2023. Presented at ENDO, Chicago, Jun 15-17th 2023.
  • Akmaral Nurbekova, Svetlana Ten, Amrit Bhangoo, “First Case from Kazakhstan of Familial Partial Lipodystrophy Type 2 with Cardiac Phenotype”, 2023. Presented at ESPE, The Hague Netherlands, Sept 21-23rd.
  • Mongia A, Bhangoo A, Ten S, Michl J, Ghanny S, “Glucocorticoid Sensitivity in vitro can predict the Clinical Response to Steroid Therapy in Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome” (opens in new tab), International Journal of Endocrinology and Diabetes, vol. 5, no. 1, 2022.
  • Bhangoo A, Gupta R, Shelov SP, Carey DE, Accacha S, Fennoy I, Altshuler L, Lowell B, Rapaport R, Rosenfeld W, Speiser PW, Ten S, Rosenbaum M, “Fasting Serum IGFBP-1 as a Marker of Insulin Resistance in Diverse School Children Populations” (opens in new tab), Front. Endocrinol., vol. 13, pp. 840361, 2022.
  • A Lin, J Bullock, A Bhangoo, “A 5-year response to Growth Hormone Therapy in various genotypic groups of Noonan syndrome”, 2022. Presented at PES virtual meeting.
  • A Bhangoo, H Kashmiri, S Kadakia, D Dremaine, “Genetic Variations in Early Onset Obesity: Experience from southern California”, 2022. Presented at ESPE meeting, Rome, Italy, Sept 15-17th 2022.
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Contact Information

Email: abhangoo@uci.edu

Phone: (714) 509-8634

Address: 1201 W. La Veta Avenue, Orange CA 92868, Irvine, CA 92868

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Last updated on 2/17/2026.