Dr. Tina Pilumeli Di Blasi, native of Italy, graduated at the University of Florence Medical School. She married
Dr. Michele Di Blasi, her sweetheart since high school, and both of them moved to Cleveland, Ohio.

She trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and then in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University Hospital of Cleveland and Metro Health Medical Center, both affiliated with the prestigious Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She then worked as an attending physician in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Champlain Valley Medical Center in Plattsburg, NY, associated with the University of Vermont Medical School. She also worked as attending physician in Endocrinology at Oklahoma City Clinic and at the presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and then in private practice as an endocrinologist with privileges at the Southwestern Medical Center in Lawton, Oklahoma.

In 2001, with her husband and her two children, she
moved back to Italy. There she worked as an endocrinologist in private practice and also as a coordinator of the Limb Salvage Program with her husband, who was Chief of Cardiovascular Disease, at Villa Salus in Augusta, Siracusa.

At the end of 2003, she and her family returned to the
states, and they settled in Del Rio, Texas. She now has a
busy practice where she takes care of patients with all
spheres of endocrinologic problems from diabetes and
its complications to problems with the thyroid, from excessive hair growth and menstrual disorders to glands and tumors, and from osteoporosis to calcium and Vitamin D metabolism.

She sees adults and adolescents with Type 2 and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus as well as women with gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy).

She starts and follows patients on Insulin Pump Therapy
to optimize the control of difficult cases of Type 1 Diabetes
or even Type 2. She individualizes oral treatment for
diabetics, choosing among the many medications available
today, the ones that best fit the metabolic profile of
a given patient. She also performs thyroid ultrasound,
diagnoses and treats thyroid nodules, and does ultrasound
guided fine needle aspiration of cold nodules.