Spring 2023
W. Timothy Garvey, MD, MACE (UAB)
“Cardiometabolic Disease: Pathophysiology, Natural History, and Clinical Implications”
Barbara E. Corkey, PhD (BU)
“The Redox Network: Master Regulator of Metabolism”
Susan Bonner-Weir, PhD (Harvard/Joslin)
“What Goes Wrong with the Beta Cells in Diabetes?”
Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP
(NYU)
“Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals as Metabolic Risks and What We Can Do About It”
Spring 2022
Ian de Boer, MD, MS
(U Wash)
“Progress in Diabetic Kidney Disease”
David B. Allison, PhD
(IU)
“Obesity and Mortality”
Josiemer Mattei, PhD
(Harvard)
“Food, culture, and health in Hispanics/Latinx: from evidence to action”
Silvia Corvera, MD
(UMass)
“Thermogenic adipose tissue and metabolic disease”
Maureen Gannon, PhD
(VUMC)
“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”
Fall 2022
Randy J. Seeley, Ph.D.
(U. 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 Thaler, MD, PhD
(U Penn and U. Washington)
DRC Virtual Seminar Series Panel Discussion
Mike Snyder, PhD
(Stanford)
“Advances in Glucose Dysregulation Research”
Spring 2021
Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP
(Johns Hopkins)
“Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: Focusing a Newer Lens”
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD
(U. Iowa)
“Diabetes and Heart Failure – Mitochondrial Mechanisms”
Debbie Thurmond,
(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
(Univ. Michigan)
“Type 2 Diabetes in African American Men: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead”