Type 2 diabetes already affects 20 million Americans and its prevalence is rising to epidemic proportions worldwide. At Hopkins, GIM research faculty with National Institutes of Health support are combating diabetes across a range of fronts including clinical, social, genetic, and molecular epidemiology, health services research, psychology and health behavior, and randomized, controlled trials. Our focus is on prevention of diabetes and its complications, by optimal application of available pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies, and by the identification of novel risk factors that can be modified by drug treatment, behavior change, and/or public health policy. Hopkins GIM is proud to serve as a cross-roads for diabetes researchers across the Hopkins campus, including faculty from Endocrinology (Drs. Sherita Golden and Christopher Saudek), Obstetrics & Gynecology (Dr. Wanda Nicholson), Nursing (Drs. Jerilyn Allen and Miyong Kim), and Pathology (Dr. Mark Halushka). Information about GIM faculty working in this research area and their projects is provided below.
Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Division of General Internal Medicine; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research; Principal Investigator, Look AHEAD Study; Principal Investigator, NIDDKgrant (K24) for Patient-Oriented Research in Type 2 Diabetes
Research Interests: Epidemiology; health disparities; primary and secondary prevention; randomized, clinical trials; research mentorship
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Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Nursing; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research; Co-Director, NHLBI (T32) Training Grant in Behavioral Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease
Research Interests: Clinical psychology; psychometrics; behavioral intervention trials
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Jeanne M. Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, GIM Fellowship Program; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research; Co-Principal Investigator, Look AHEAD Study; Co-Investigator, Diabetes Prevention Program-Outcomes Study
Research Interests: Obesity; fatty liver disease; bariatric surgery; randomized, controlled trials
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Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, Chronic Disease Informatics Program, JHU
Research Interests: Use of health informatics to improve management of type 2 diabetes
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W. H. (Linda) Kao, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research; Co-Investigator, FIND Study
Research Interests: Genetic epidemiology of diabetes, obesity, diabetic kidney disease; Burden of diabetes and its complications in African Americans
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Tiffany Gary, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Social and geographic epidemiology; health disparities: randomized, controlled trials; meta-analysis
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Elizabeth Selvin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Epidemiologic methods; molecular epidemiology; meta-analysis
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H.C. (Jessica) Yeh, PhD
Assistant Scientist, Epidemiology; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Methods in epidemiology and controlled trials; clinical research mentorship; diabetes and novel complications; obesity
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J. Hunter Young, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Director, ICHABOD Study
Research Interests: Molecular and genetic epidemiology; Physical anthropology; Pathophysiology of hypertension in relation to obesity and diabetes
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