Name: Seminar with Alaina Vidmar, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Start: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-12-15T23:59:59+00:00

Research Highlights

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DORI 2019 Symposium – Recorded Presentations
DORI’s symposium on February 26th and 27th was recorded and can be viewed at the following link: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/dori Username is – dori Password – medicine

Apr 11, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
DORI’s 2019 Symposium Winners
Trainee Lighting Talks Winners: 1st place: Verenice Ascencio, undergraduate student from CSULB 2nd place: Jennifer Zink, PhD student from USC 3rd place: Linda Tsan, PhD student from USC Trainee Poster Presentation Winners: 1st place: Carina Alvarado, undergraduate student from CSULB

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Gastric banding, metformin “equal” for slowing early T2DM progression
Clinical Endocrinology News highlighted a study by Thomas Buchanan, MD, professor of medicine, comparing gastric banding and metformin for improving insulin sensitivity in patients with early Type 2 diabetes in the following link: https://www.mdedge.com/clinicalendocrinologynews/article/176467/diabetes/gastric-banding-metformin-equal-slowing-early-t2dm

Oct 11, 2018 | 0 comments | View Post

In The News

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LiveStrong cited research by Genevieve Dunton, PhD, MPH, associate professor of preventive medicine and psychology.
LiveStrong on how people are more likely to enjoy exercise if they work out in groups.

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Impact of Gastric Banding Versus Metformin on β-Cell Function in Adults With Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Mild Type 2 Diabetes
Publication by Anny H. Xiang, Enrique Trigo, Mayra Martinez, Namir Katkhouda, Elizabeth Beale, Xinhui Wang, Jun Wu,Ting Chow, Cortney Montgomery, Krishna S. Nayak, Fadi Hendee, Thomas A. Buchanan and for the RISE Consortium in the following link: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2018/10/03/dc18-1662

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Central Dicer-miR-103/107 controls developmental switch of POMC progenitors into NPY neurons and impacts glucose homeostasis
Publication by Sophie Croizier, Soyoung Park, Julien Maillard, Sebastien G Bouret, in the following link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/40429

Oct 15, 2018 | 0 comments | View Post

Welcome to DORI

Welcome to the Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) at the University of Southern California. Established in 2012, the DORI is a multi-disciplinary collaborative of investigators seeking to link basic, clinical, and public health research to advance the understanding of obesity and its relationship to type II diabetes. The Institute was designed to foster interactions across disciplinary boundaries; embrace methods and techniques from diverse fields of study; and develop effective approaches to risk assessment, prevention and treatment of the international co-epidemics of diabetes and obesity.
Upcoming Events
1. Seminar with Peter Butler, MD University of California, Los Angeles
  
  May 19
2. Seminar with Stephanie Correa, PhD University of California, Los Angeles
  
  September 8
3. Seminar with Steven Heymsfield, MD Louisiana State University
  
  November 17
4. Seminar with Alaina Vidmar, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  
  December 15
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