Education/CredentialsFellowship : Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Endocrinology )Residency : University of Cincinnati (Internal Medicine)Internship : American University of Beirut Medical Center (Internal Medicine )Medical Degree: American University of Beirut (AUB)Bachelor's Degree: American University of Beirut (AUB) (Biology) Board Certifications & LicensesAmerican Board of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology-Diabetes and Metabolism) (Certification Date: 2008-10-24) - (Recertification Date: 2018-11-15) SpecialtiesEndocrinology-Diabetes and MetabolismInternal Medicine Contact Information Medical Sciences Building 7065 Office 513-558-6291 Email diabd@ucmail.uc.edu Research Interests Bone disorders Parathyroid disorders Clinical Interests CalciphylaxisCalcium Metabolism DisordersEndocrine Bone DiseaseHypercalcemiaHyperparathyroidismHypocalcemiaHypoparathyroidismHypophosphatemiaMetabolic Bone DiseaseOsteitis Fibrosa CysticaOsteoporosisPaget's Disease of the BoneParathyroid CancerParathyroid DiseaseParathyroid DisordersParathyroid ProblemsPathologic DecalcificationPostmenopausal OsteoporosisPseudohypoparathyroidismPseudopseudohypoparathyroidismSecondary HyperparathyroidismVitamin D DeficiencyX-Linked Dominant Hypophosphatemic Rickets Peer Reviewed Publications Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2021. Updates on Osteoporosis in Men. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 50 2, 239-249Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS- 2020 UPDATE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 5, 564-570Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS-2020 UPDATE. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 Suppl 1, 1-46Hurley, Daniel L; Binkley, Neil; Camacho, Pauline M; Diab, Dima L; Kennel, Kurt A; Malabanan, Alan; Tangpricha, Vin 2018. THE USE OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS IN SKELETAL HEALTH: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AND THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY POSITION STATEMENT. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 24 10, 915-924Bhattacharya, Amit; Watts, Nelson B; Dwivedi, Alok; Shukla, Rakesh; Mani, Ashutosh; Diab, Dima 2015. Combined Measures of Dynamic Bone Quality and Postural Balance-A Fracture Risk Assessment Approach in Osteoporosis. Journal of clinical densitometry : the official journal of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, , Diab DL, Watts NB. 2014. Acute Medical Aspects Related to Osteoporosis and its Therapy Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies,, 1 , Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Denosumab in osteoporosis Expert opinion on drug safety, 13 2, 247-53Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Use of drug holidays in women taking bisphosphonates Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 21 2, 195-7Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Secondary Osteoporosis: Differential Diagnosis and Workup. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 4 56, :686-93Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes, 6 20, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Secondary osteoporosis: differential diagnosis and workup. Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, 56 4, 686-93Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Postmenopausal osteoporosis. Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity, 20 6, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in older adults Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 42 2, 305-17Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Bisphosphonate drug holiday: who, when and how long Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease, 5 3, 107-11Diab, DL, Watts, NB, and Miller, PD. 2013. Bisphosphonates: Pharmacology and Use in the Treatment of Osteoporosis Osteoporosis, 4 , 1859-1872Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2012. Bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 41 3, 487-506Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2011. A backbone for FRAX? Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 26 3, 458-9Diab, Dima L; D'Alessio, D. 2010. The contribution of enteroinsular hormones to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Current diabetes reports, 10 3, 192-8Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2010. Long-term use of bisphosphonates in osteoporosis. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 95 4, 1555-65Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Diab, Dima L; Baker, Allison R; Yerian, Lisa; Bajaj, Harpreet; Gray-McGuire, Courtney; Schauer, Philip R; Gupta, Manjula; Feldstein, Ariel E; Hazen, Stanley L; Stein, Catherine M 2009. Triglyceride levels and not adipokine concentrations are closely related to severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in an obesity surgery cohort. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 17 9, 1696-701Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Grossman, William F; Rabinowitz, Laura O; Hamrahian, Amir H 2008. Virilizing ovarian Leydig cell tumor in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 3, 358-61Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Zhou, Ming; Zimmerman, Robert S 2008. Virilizing adrenal ganglioneuroma in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 5, 584-7Diab, Dima L; Yerian, Lisa; Schauer, Philip; Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Lopez, Rocio; Hazen, Stanley L; Feldstein, Ariel E 2008. Cytokeratin 18 fragment levels as a noninvasive biomarker for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in bariatric surgery patients. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 6 11, 1249-54Hoogwerf, Byron J; Doshi, Krupa B; Diab, Dima 2008. Pramlintide, the synthetic analogue of amylin: physiology, pathophysiology, and effects on glycemic control, body weight, and selected biomarkers of vascular risk. Vascular health and risk management, 4 2, 355-62
Clinical Interests CalciphylaxisCalcium Metabolism DisordersEndocrine Bone DiseaseHypercalcemiaHyperparathyroidismHypocalcemiaHypoparathyroidismHypophosphatemiaMetabolic Bone DiseaseOsteitis Fibrosa CysticaOsteoporosisPaget's Disease of the BoneParathyroid CancerParathyroid DiseaseParathyroid DisordersParathyroid ProblemsPathologic DecalcificationPostmenopausal OsteoporosisPseudohypoparathyroidismPseudopseudohypoparathyroidismSecondary HyperparathyroidismVitamin D DeficiencyX-Linked Dominant Hypophosphatemic Rickets
Peer Reviewed Publications Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2021. Updates on Osteoporosis in Men. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 50 2, 239-249Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS- 2020 UPDATE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 5, 564-570Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS-2020 UPDATE. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 Suppl 1, 1-46Hurley, Daniel L; Binkley, Neil; Camacho, Pauline M; Diab, Dima L; Kennel, Kurt A; Malabanan, Alan; Tangpricha, Vin 2018. THE USE OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS IN SKELETAL HEALTH: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AND THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY POSITION STATEMENT. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 24 10, 915-924Bhattacharya, Amit; Watts, Nelson B; Dwivedi, Alok; Shukla, Rakesh; Mani, Ashutosh; Diab, Dima 2015. Combined Measures of Dynamic Bone Quality and Postural Balance-A Fracture Risk Assessment Approach in Osteoporosis. Journal of clinical densitometry : the official journal of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, , Diab DL, Watts NB. 2014. Acute Medical Aspects Related to Osteoporosis and its Therapy Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies,, 1 , Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Denosumab in osteoporosis Expert opinion on drug safety, 13 2, 247-53Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Use of drug holidays in women taking bisphosphonates Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 21 2, 195-7Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Secondary Osteoporosis: Differential Diagnosis and Workup. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 4 56, :686-93Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes, 6 20, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Secondary osteoporosis: differential diagnosis and workup. Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, 56 4, 686-93Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Postmenopausal osteoporosis. Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity, 20 6, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in older adults Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 42 2, 305-17Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Bisphosphonate drug holiday: who, when and how long Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease, 5 3, 107-11Diab, DL, Watts, NB, and Miller, PD. 2013. Bisphosphonates: Pharmacology and Use in the Treatment of Osteoporosis Osteoporosis, 4 , 1859-1872Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2012. Bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 41 3, 487-506Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2011. A backbone for FRAX? Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 26 3, 458-9Diab, Dima L; D'Alessio, D. 2010. The contribution of enteroinsular hormones to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Current diabetes reports, 10 3, 192-8Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2010. Long-term use of bisphosphonates in osteoporosis. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 95 4, 1555-65Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Diab, Dima L; Baker, Allison R; Yerian, Lisa; Bajaj, Harpreet; Gray-McGuire, Courtney; Schauer, Philip R; Gupta, Manjula; Feldstein, Ariel E; Hazen, Stanley L; Stein, Catherine M 2009. Triglyceride levels and not adipokine concentrations are closely related to severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in an obesity surgery cohort. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 17 9, 1696-701Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Grossman, William F; Rabinowitz, Laura O; Hamrahian, Amir H 2008. Virilizing ovarian Leydig cell tumor in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 3, 358-61Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Zhou, Ming; Zimmerman, Robert S 2008. Virilizing adrenal ganglioneuroma in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 5, 584-7Diab, Dima L; Yerian, Lisa; Schauer, Philip; Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Lopez, Rocio; Hazen, Stanley L; Feldstein, Ariel E 2008. Cytokeratin 18 fragment levels as a noninvasive biomarker for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in bariatric surgery patients. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 6 11, 1249-54Hoogwerf, Byron J; Doshi, Krupa B; Diab, Dima 2008. Pramlintide, the synthetic analogue of amylin: physiology, pathophysiology, and effects on glycemic control, body weight, and selected biomarkers of vascular risk. Vascular health and risk management, 4 2, 355-62
Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2021. Updates on Osteoporosis in Men. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 50 2, 239-249Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS- 2020 UPDATE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 5, 564-570Camacho, Pauline M; Petak, Steven M; Binkley, Neil; Diab, Dima L; Eldeiry, Leslie S; Farooki, Azeez; Harris, Steven T; Hurley, Daniel L; Kelly, Jennifer; Lewiecki, E Michael; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; McClung, Michael; Wimalawansa, Sunil J; Watts, Nelson B 2020. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS-2020 UPDATE. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 26 Suppl 1, 1-46Hurley, Daniel L; Binkley, Neil; Camacho, Pauline M; Diab, Dima L; Kennel, Kurt A; Malabanan, Alan; Tangpricha, Vin 2018. THE USE OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS IN SKELETAL HEALTH: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AND THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY POSITION STATEMENT. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 24 10, 915-924Bhattacharya, Amit; Watts, Nelson B; Dwivedi, Alok; Shukla, Rakesh; Mani, Ashutosh; Diab, Dima 2015. Combined Measures of Dynamic Bone Quality and Postural Balance-A Fracture Risk Assessment Approach in Osteoporosis. Journal of clinical densitometry : the official journal of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, , Diab DL, Watts NB. 2014. Acute Medical Aspects Related to Osteoporosis and its Therapy Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies,, 1 , Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Denosumab in osteoporosis Expert opinion on drug safety, 13 2, 247-53Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2014. Use of drug holidays in women taking bisphosphonates Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 21 2, 195-7Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Secondary Osteoporosis: Differential Diagnosis and Workup. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 4 56, :686-93Diab DL, Watts NB. 2013. Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes, 6 20, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Secondary osteoporosis: differential diagnosis and workup. Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, 56 4, 686-93Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Postmenopausal osteoporosis. Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity, 20 6, 501-9Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in older adults Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 42 2, 305-17Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2013. Bisphosphonate drug holiday: who, when and how long Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease, 5 3, 107-11Diab, DL, Watts, NB, and Miller, PD. 2013. Bisphosphonates: Pharmacology and Use in the Treatment of Osteoporosis Osteoporosis, 4 , 1859-1872Diab, Dima L; Watts, Nelson B 2012. Bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 41 3, 487-506Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2011. A backbone for FRAX? Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 26 3, 458-9Diab, Dima L; D'Alessio, D. 2010. The contribution of enteroinsular hormones to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Current diabetes reports, 10 3, 192-8Watts, Nelson B; Diab, Dima L 2010. Long-term use of bisphosphonates in osteoporosis. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 95 4, 1555-65Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Diab, Dima L; Baker, Allison R; Yerian, Lisa; Bajaj, Harpreet; Gray-McGuire, Courtney; Schauer, Philip R; Gupta, Manjula; Feldstein, Ariel E; Hazen, Stanley L; Stein, Catherine M 2009. Triglyceride levels and not adipokine concentrations are closely related to severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in an obesity surgery cohort. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 17 9, 1696-701Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Grossman, William F; Rabinowitz, Laura O; Hamrahian, Amir H 2008. Virilizing ovarian Leydig cell tumor in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 3, 358-61Diab, Dima L; Faiman, Charles; Siperstein, Allan E; Zhou, Ming; Zimmerman, Robert S 2008. Virilizing adrenal ganglioneuroma in a woman with subclinical Cushing syndrome. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 14 5, 584-7Diab, Dima L; Yerian, Lisa; Schauer, Philip; Kashyap, Sangeeta R; Lopez, Rocio; Hazen, Stanley L; Feldstein, Ariel E 2008. Cytokeratin 18 fragment levels as a noninvasive biomarker for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in bariatric surgery patients. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 6 11, 1249-54Hoogwerf, Byron J; Doshi, Krupa B; Diab, Dima 2008. Pramlintide, the synthetic analogue of amylin: physiology, pathophysiology, and effects on glycemic control, body weight, and selected biomarkers of vascular risk. Vascular health and risk management, 4 2, 355-62