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Diabetes Plenary Lecture Series

Virtual Seminar Series - Virtual DRC Seminar Videos

  • January 13
    Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Senior Director, Population Health Research and Development Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology & Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University and Medicine
    Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: Focusing a Newer Lens
  • February 10
    E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, University of Iowa
    Diabetes and Heart Failure - Mitochondrial Mechanisms
  • March 10
    Debbie C. Thurmond, PhD, City of Hope
    Insulin secretion and peripheral Insulin action: orchestrating better harmony
  • April 14
    William Parker, MD, MS, University of Chicago - "COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Disparities"
    Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MS, FACP, University of Chicago - "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic"
    Kamlesh Khunti, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCGP, FMedSci, University of Leicester - "COVID-19 and Its Impact in People with Diabetes"
    COVID-19 Panel: Spotlight on Healthcare Disparities, Diabetes Care, and Vaccine Distribution
  • May 12
    Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD, Chief, Endocrine Division and Diabetes Unit, Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Clinical Translation of Genetic Predictors for Type 2 Diabetes
  • June 9
    Darleen Sandoval, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Nutrition Section Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
    Lessons from mouse models of bariatric surgery
  • July 7
    Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD, Director, IU Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University
    Peter Jackson, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Pathology, Stanford University
    huibing Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Diabetes Program in Surgery, Weill Cornell University
    Panel Discussion: “Hot topics: in vitro modeling of molecular interactions between SARS-CoV2 and diabetes”
  • August 11
    Jaclynn Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Associate Director of the Curtis Center for Health Equity, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
    Type 2 Diabetes in African American Men: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
  • September 8
    Peter Turnbaugh, PhD, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
    Ruth Ley, PhD, Director, Department of Microbiome Science, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
    Diabetes and the Gut Microbiota
  • October 13
    Rebecca Hull-Meichle, PhD, Research Professor, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Director, Diabetes and the Islet Program, UW Medicine Diabetes Institute Seattle, WA
    Impact of Exocrine Pancreas Pathology on Islet Function and Survival
  • November 10
    Dave D’Alessio, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine Director, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition Associate Director, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University
    GLP-1RA physiology and pharmacology
  • December 8
    Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS, University of Michigan
    S. Robert Levine, MD, The Mary Tyler Moore & S. Robert Levine, MD Charitable Foundation
    It is Time for a Moonshot for Diabetic Retinal Disease

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