Prior Seminars
2021
Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP
Johns Hopkins
“Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: Focusing a Newer Lens”
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
“Diabetes and Heart Failure – Mitochondrial Mechanisms”
Debbie C. Thurmond, PhD
City of Hope
“Insulin secretion and peripheral Insulin action:
orchestrating better harmony”
William Parker, MD, MS
Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MS, FACP
Kamlesh Khunti, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCGP, FMedSci
COVID-19 Panel Discussion
Jose Florez, MD, PhD
Harvard
“Clinical Translation of Genetic Predictors for Type 2 Diabetes”
Darleen Sandoval, PhD
Univ. Colorado
“Lessons from mouse models of bariatric surgery”
Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD
Peter Jackson, PhD
Shuibing Chen, PhD
COVID and Diabetes Panel
Jaclynn Hawkins, PhD
University of Michigan
“Type 2 Diabetes in African American Men:
Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead”
Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
Ruth Ley, PhD
“Diabetes and the Gut Microbiota”
Rebecca Hull-Meichle, PhD
“Impact of Exocrine Pancreas Pathology on
Islet Function and Survival”
David D’Alessio, MD
“GLP-1RA physiology and pharmacology”
Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS and S. Robert Levine, MD
“It is Time for a Moonshot for Diabetic Retinal Disease”
2022
David B. Allison, PhD
Indiana University
“Obesity and Mortality”
Ian de Boer, MD, MS
University of Washington
“Progress in Diabetic Kidney Disease”
Josiemer Mattei, PhD
Harvard
“Food, culture, and health in Hispanics/Latinx:
From evidence to action”
Silvia Corvera, MD
University of Massachusetts
“Thermogenic adipose tissue and metabolic disease”
Maureen Gannon, PhD
Vanderbilt
“Intersection of prostagladin E2 and GLP-1 signaling
pathways to promote beta-cell identity, proliferation, survival”
Hilary Seligman, PhD
UCSF
“Diabetes and the Food is Medicine Movement: 2022 Updates”
Randy J. Seeley PhD
University of Michigan
“What bariatric surgery tells us about the role the gut plays in the
regulation of metabolism”
Jeffrey E. Pessin, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Temporal and spatial cellular heterogeneity
of hepatocyte metabolism”
Sherita H. Golden, MD, MHS
Johns Hopkins Medicine
“Understanding the Historical Context of Diabetes
Health Disparities to Catalyze Present Day Solutions”
Amber Alhadeff, PhD and Josh Thayler, MD, PhD
(U Penn and U. Washington)
DRC Virtual Seminar Series Panel Discussion
Mike Snyder, PhD
(Stanford)
“Advances in Glucose Dysregulation Research”
2023
W. Timothy Garvey, MD, MACE
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Cardiometabolic Disease: Pathophysiology,
Natural History, and Clinical Implications”
Barbara E. Corkey, PhD
Boston University
“The Redox Network: Master Regulator of Metabolism”
Susan Bonner-Weir, PhD
Harvard/Joslin Diabetes Center
“What Goes Wrong with the Beta Cells in Diabetes?”
Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP
New York University
“Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals as Metabolic Risks
and What We Can Do About It”
Fiona Gribble, MD, DPhil
University of Cambridge
“Targeting the Gut to Treat Metabolic Disease”
Catherine Kim, MD, MPH
University of Michigan
“Aging Markers and Diabetes Across the Lifespan”
Lori Sussel, PhD
University of Colorado
“RNA splicing: A novel regulatory layer of islet function”