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Pediatric
Endocrinology Training Program Faculty: Rank, Research Interest and Role |
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AND RESEARCH TRACK |
RANK |
RESEARCH
INTEREST |
CONTACT & WEB LINK |
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Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology | Growth/Diabetes: Growth hormone receptor structure and signal transduction pathways | cartersu@umich.edu
2002 Research Award |
 William
Herman, MDBasic Science Track Clinical Investigation Track |
Professor, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Epidemiology, Interim Director, Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center | Diabetes: Diabetes, diabetes complications, diabetes and pregnancy, diabetes epidemiology, managed care and health economics | wherman@umich.edu American Diabetes Association's Kelly West Award 2006 |
| Jeff
Horowitz, PhD Basic Science Track |
Assistant Professor, Division of Kinesiology | Obesity/Diabetes/Energy
Metabolism: Regulation of fat and carbohydrate metabolism |
jeffhoro@umich.edu
Lab WebSite |
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Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Comm Diseases, Pediatric Endocrine Division |
Obesity/Reproduction: Hormonal regulation and insulin resistance in adolescent girls. | jzkv@umich.edu
Medicine at Michigan 2004 |
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Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience | Behavior/Reproduction/Stress: Regulation of adult sex behavior by prenatal exposure to excess sex steroids |
terrilee@umich.edu Lab Website |
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Professor, Pediatrics & Comm Diseases & Physiology, Director, Pediatric Endocrine Division and Molecular & Integrative Physiology | Growth/Diabetes/Reproduction:
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Assistant
Professor |
Obesity/Diabetes: Type 2 diabetes, energy balance, insulin, leptin |
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Professor, Pediatrics & Comm Diseases, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
Reproduction/Growth: Understanding the fetal origin of pubertal and adult reproductive and metabolic disorders and the impact of native steroids and estrogenic environmental pollutants in programming such defects. |
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Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Director, Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Program |
Growth: Mechanisms for regulation of gene expression by growth factors. |
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Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Reproductive Science |
Obesity/Reproduction: Modulation of processes leading to successful and unsuccessful reproduction, regulation lipid metabolism. |
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Professor, Pediatrics & Comm Diseases, Pediatric Endocrinology Division, and Psychiatry; Research Associate Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development | Stress/Growth/Behavior: Molecular brain mechanisms underlying long-term consequences of stress in growing organisms & Consequences of prenatal and postnatal stress in infants and children | |
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Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Radiology and Mental Health Research Institute. | Stress
Regulatory Mechanisms: Examination of neurotransmitter systems and neuronal nuclei involved in the stress response and emotional regulation in humans with PET and fMRI |
The first Phil F. Jenkins Research Professor of Depression , 2006 |
| ADVISORY
COMMITTEE FACULTY |
RANK |
RESEARCH
INTEREST |
CONTACT
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Professor,
Department of Pediatrics& Comm. Diseases Professor, Health Management
& Policy Associate Chair for External Affairs, Dept. of Pediatrics
and Comm. Diseases Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit |
Child Health Policy and Health Economics: Immunization financing, physician behavior and inter-specialty variation in the provision of preventive services to children | |
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Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology | Infection and Immunology: Identification of genes and epitopes that may explain virulence and transmission of H. influenzae. Director of Pediatric Fellowship Training Program |
Inside/Outside
(Book) |
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Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Women's Studies; Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development |
Women's
Health: |