Diabetes

GW faculty and students volunteered at the Second Annual EndoCares Health Fair to create awareness of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and La Clinica del Pueblo have partnered to launch Project ECHO in Washington, D.C. to increase workforce capacity to provide best practice specialty care and reduce health disparities.

From Vienna, Austria, to Washington, D.C., Irene Tamagna’s journey to medicine was a winding and uncertain path.

Sabyasachi Sen, MD, associate professor of medicine, spoke to U.S. News & World Report for an article about new research that suggests low-calorie artificial sweeteners could predispose individuals to diabetes. This research was also covered by The Conversation and Daily Mail.

Faculty and students from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences partnered with the Endocrine Society to organize a health fair at the Peruvian Consulate in Washington, D.C.

Fran Cogen, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke to U.S. News & World Report for an article discussing the increase of Type 2 diabetes in children.

Joshua Cohen, MD, professor of medicine, was interviewed by NBC4 for a segment about the detection of prediabetes and interventions patients can use to lower risk of developing diabetes.

Robert Freishtat, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a Medical Xpress article about the effects losing weight could have on development of Type 2 diabetes.

The fourth-annual International Conference on Nutrition and Medicine, jointly sponsored by The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the nonprofit Physicians Committee, takes place at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, from July 29  to 30, 2016. 

Michael S. Irwig, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Andrology Center, authored a review article on testosterone therapy for transgender men, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal.