Faculty Research Interests:
- The effect of nutrition in fragility fracture patients with osteoporosis
- The effect of chronic kidney disease on balance
- The implementation of a fragility fracture liaison program in an academic medical center
- The role of relaxin in tissue fibrosis and repair
- Relaxin in adipose function and fibrosis
- Targeted treatment of the liver-adipose axis in metabolic diseases
- Improving management and outcomes of post-transplant diabetes
- Inpatient management of hyperglycemia in transplant recipients
- Medical Education
- Improving outcomes in diabetes and obesity using treatment algorithms
- Mechanisms of diabetes and metabolic syndrome on vascular and brain function
- Cardiovascular outcome clinical trials in diabetes
- Inpatient glucose control
- Type 1 diabetes and neurosciences
- Pituitary including (growth hormone, Cushing’s, acromegaly)
- Telemedicine clinic development
- Innovative models of endocrine care
- Development of a thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer registry and biospecimen bank
- Biomarkers and well differentiated thyroid cancer
- Environmental etiologies for thyroid disease and thyroid cancer
- Vitamin D and thyroid cancer
- Vitamin D replacement following bariatric surgery
- Role of insulin-degrading enzyme in insulin action and development of insulin resistance
- Signal transduction mechanisms of peptide hormones, especially insulin
- Biologic activity of insulin degradation products
- Role of insulin degrading enzyme in the pathophysiology of diabetes.
- Role of insulin degrading enzyme in insulin resistance caused by protease inhibitors
- Etiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Thyroid cancer
- Immune mediated endocrinopathies
- Nontraditional risk factors for vascular disease after kidney transplantation;
- Primary prevention of diabetes and its complications, particularly renal, eye, and cardiovascular disease in African Americans, Native Americans, and/or adolescents with diabetes or obesity.
- Improving outcomes after islet, pancreas and/or kidney transplant
- Post-transplant diabetes: causes and treatment
- Improving outcomes in women with diabetes during and after pregnancy
- Improving outcomes with cystic fibrosis related diabetes or bone disease
- Prevention and treatment of bone disease associated with short gut syndrome
- Improving glucose control in the hospitalized patient
- Cardiovascular outcome clinical trials in diabetes
- The role of adipose tissue inflammation in mediating obesity-linked metabolic disorders
- The role of oxidative stress and inflammation on alcoholic liver injury in obesity
- Altered amino acid metabolism in pancreatic cancer