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Meet the Researcher Archive
October 27, 2009
Michael Freemark MD – Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Freemark, the recipient of a Basic Science Award, states, “Our study should help us understand how a mother maintains normal blood sugar during pregnancy while supplying the nutrients that are essential for fetal development and growth.”
April 30, 2009
Dr. Louis Philipson, MD, PhD – University of Chicago
Philipson, an American Diabetes Association Research Award recipient, is conducting a research project entitled, "Beta cell damage due to reactive species-induced oxidative stress."
January 31, 2009
Dr. Lawrence Lavery, DPM, MPH – Scott and White Hospital
Evaluating the occurrence and frequency of lower extremity complications in persons with diabetes and on dialysis is the first of three objectives in a study being led by Lavery, the recipient of an ADA-APMA Mentor-based Postdoctoral Fellowship award.
December 1, 2008
Valerie Duffy, PhD, RD – University of Connecticut
Valerie Duffy, PhD, RD, at the University of Connecticut, was the recipient of the ADA-- Healthy Food Choices Research grant funded by the ARAMARK Charitable Fund. Dr. Duffy’s research entitled, “The Captain 5 A Day Program: Improving dietary quality and physical activity in preschoolers" could impact the long--term health goals of children in preventing obesity, a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
October 1, 2008
Sangita Sharma, PhD - University of Hawaii
Sangita Sharma, PhD is currently conducting research at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the recipient of an ADA Clinical Research Award for her project entitled, “Intervention for a chronic disease epidemic: community health initiatives and promotion strategies for diabetes prevention (ICE CHIPS) in Native North Americans”.
August 1, 2008
Victor Montori, MD, MSc - Knowledge and Encounter Research Unit, Mayo Clinic
Victor Montori, MD, MSc, was the recipient of an ADA-Novo Nordisk Clinical Research Award to help determine the best way to help people with type 2 diabetes make decisions about diabetes medications, including insulin. This was a competitive grant awarded and administered by the ADA , with funding support from Novo Nordisk, Inc. Dr. Montori explains, “Patients with type 2 diabetes whose pills only achieve limited blood sugar control often delay starting insulin therapy.
