Centers of Excellence

Addenbrooke’s Hospital is an internationally renowned 1000-bed teaching hospital and research center in Cambridge, England, with strong affiliations to the University of Cambridge. Addenbrooke’s Hospital is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and sits adjacent to the Rose Hospital for women. The hospital is run by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a designated academic health science center. Addenbrooke’s Hospital is a leading center for primary aldosteronism clinical practice and research, and one of the only centers in the world able to offer molecular imaging as an alternative to adrenal venous sampling (AVS). In daytime hours (0900 to 1700) an Endocrine specialist registrar is available to take referrals from other hospital teams and to offer urgent advice to GP’s.

The Center for Adrenal Disorders is a comprehensive clinical care and research initiative formed by the collaborative communities at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in partnership with the Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, all at Harvard Medical School. The goals of the center are to provide exceptional care for patients with all forms of adrenal disorders, through its expertise and extensive resources, and to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of adrenal diseases by engaging in collaborative and innovative research. The center offers patients with primary aldosteronism diagnosis, medical management, genetic testing, and surgery.

Changi General Hospital (CGH) is a public teaching hospital with over 1,000 beds serving a community of more than 1 million people in eastern Singapore. With a wide range of medical specialties and services, it’s helmed by an experienced and skilled team of healthcare professionals who consistently deliver positive health outcomes and care for patients. CGH is a member of the SingHealth cluster of healthcare institutions.

The Endocrinology department is one of the leading centers in Asia for treatment, innovation, and research in primary aldosteronism. The staff’s research on primary aldosteronism and other endocrine diseases has been widely published in leading medical journals and the hospital is the site of multiple clinical trials.

The University of Queensland’s Endocrine Hypertension Research Centre (EHRC) is based at Greenslopes (GH) and Princess Alexandra Hospitals (GAH) in Brisbane. The Centre is a major clinical referral centre for the management of hypertension. Four Hypertension Clinics weekly (three at PAH and one at GH) plus referrals from private rooms provide a sophisticated diagnostic and treatment service for patients from all over Queensland and Northern NSW, with occasional referrals from further afield including Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and Asia. Detailed and rigorous inpatient (in demarcated “Hypertension Unit” beds) investigation and treatment protocols are closely supervised by dedicated “Hypertension Unit” nurses. More than 1600 thoroughly studied and documented patients with primary aldosteronism provide a unique resource for further research into causes, diagnosis and treatment, and have led to important collaborations with first-class overseas investigators.

The Medical Clinic IV, under the direction of Professor Martin Reincke, has 135 inpatient beds, and a large number of outpatient clinics and day clinics. The interdisciplinary nature of medical care is an essential feature of the clinic, and includes all specialties at the highest university level. The clinic is involved in the acute and emergency care of the city of Munich, and has an interdisciplinary emergency department and reception center for all acute internal diseases. It is one of the world’s leading sites for the treatment of primary aldosteronism, and also hosts Germany’s National Conn registry, which is used for multicenter data collection on the diagnosis, therapy and disease course of Conn’s syndrome.

Mayo Clinic’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, & Nutrition is one of the largest in the world. At their main Rochester, Minnesota location they have a dedicated team of endocrinologists, radiologists, and endocrine surgeons to diagnose and treat primary aldosteronism.