Internal Medicine and Endocrinology
Dr. J. Desiree Pineda received her Internal Medicine and Primary Care degree from the University of Connecticut Health Center and completed a three-year Endocrinology Fellowship at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney disease, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Pineda, a native Washingtonian grew up in Dominican Republic where she obtained her medical degree at the Pedro Henriquez Urena University.
Dr. Pineda is Board Certified and practices Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in Washington, DC since 1993. In addition to Internal Medicine her areas of expertise are diabetes, thyroid diseases, metabolic and weight disorders. She also offers metabolic testing and nutritional counseling. Dr. Pineda and her staff are fluent in Spanish.
She is the Past President of the Pan American Medical Society and a board member of the Medical Society of DC representing MSDC at the American Medical Association as an Alternate Delegate.
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