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Emma Morton-Eggleston, MD, MPH, and Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD, during February’s Obesity Incubator Session.
Last month, BWH researchers and clinicians attended a first of its kind session at the hospital to exchange ideas and launch cross-collaborative research efforts in the field of obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities.
“Our goal was to identify the clinical problem of obesity and the clinical challenges and areas of needed research, and then to further promote communication,” said Gail Kurr Adler, MD, PhD, of Endocrinology, who co-chairs the BRI’s Cardiovascular, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders Research Center with Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD, of Pathology, and Marc Pfeffer, MD, of the Cardiovascular Division. “So many of our clinical problems are overlapping, rather than the silos we once viewed them as. We want to get researchers out of these silos and talking to one another.”
The event drew a standing room only crowd to the Shapiro breakout room for an interactive poster session and presentations about different angles of obesity research.
Jorge Plutzky, MD, of the Department of Medicine, presented on obesity, insulin resistance and vascular disease; Caroline Fox, MD, of the Department of Medicine, presented about the genetics of obesity and body fat distribution; and Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD, of the Department of Surgery, discussed obesity treatment and consequences.