Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Education
Fellowship Director: James Lane, M.D. Fellowship Coordinator: Mary Monaghan
Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (DEM) supports a variety of educational opportunities, in which the DEM faculty continue to receive high evaluations and ratings. These include rotations and opportunities associated with the following programs:
Continuing education programs on diabetes care and management can be arranged at a variety of locations throughout Nebraska through our Diabetes Caravan program. A diabetes tutorial clinical experience can also be arranged. For further information, contact the Nebraska Medical Center Diabetes Center at 402-559-8700.
Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism Fellowship: The endocrinology fellowship training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is a 2 year program with an optional third year for those interested in further research training. The University of Nebraska Medical Center is the only state supported medical center for the state of Nebraska and receives endocrinology referrals from throughout the state and region. These referrals cover all aspects of clinical endocrinology (pituitary disease, diabetes including pancreas transplantation, thyroid disease including thyroid cancer, metabolic bone disease, lipid disorders, and reproductive hormone abnormalities).
The Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism section administers and staffs the Nebraska Medical Center Diabetes Center, a multidisciplinary facility aimed at providing state of the art diabetes care, education, and research. In addition to general diabetes care, special clinics have been developed for combined high risk obstetrics-diabetes and endocrinology, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, young adults with diabetes, and pancreas and kidney transplantation patients.
Additional rotations include general pediatric endocrinology clinics and consultation service, metabolic diseases of children, endocrinology and diabetes management in renal disease, reproductive endocrinology, and radiology specific to endocrinology. Opportunities for both clinical rotations and research at the Creighton University Osteoporosis Center are also available. An institutionally funded Clinical Research Center is available for clinical studies and sponsors a 2 week course for all fellows in principles of clinical research.
The training program includes one clinical year and one research year, with opportunities for clinical research, basic research, or both in the following areas: insulin action, diabetes health outcomes, novel diabetes treatments, mechanisms of diabetes associated atherosclerosis and other diabetes and organ disease, prevention of steroid associated osteoporosis, and metabolic consequences of organ transplantation.
For more information on continuing education programs, patient education programs, or the endocrine fellowship, contact Mary Monaghan at 402-559-6876. |