| Event Start Date: January 10, 2022 | Event End Date: January 10, 2022 | Event Venue: |
Please join us Monday, January 10, to learn about how to manage the comorbidities of obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. We will learn outcomes data regarding existing and evolving new therapies.
Professor Purnell, MD, leads Preventive Cardiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR. He is board certified in both Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine. His research areas of interest include understanding the causes and consequences of obesity, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidaemia and diabetes in humans. Most recently, his research has focused on the mechanisms of diabetes emission/recurrence after gastric bypass surgery, mechanisms of free fatty acid induced insulin resistance, metabolic studies of pregnant women, and the use of advanced MRI techniques to understand how the brain responds to changes in diet and weight regulatory hormones. Dr. Purnell is the Medical Director of the Interdisciplinary Weight Management Program and also a member of the Knight Cardiovascular Institute Cardiology group at OHSU, both of which include physicians who provide integrated management of patients with obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is the Editor of the Obesity section for the online textbook EndoText, is a Fellow in The Obesity Society, and maintains membership in the American Diabetes Association, the American Physiology Society and the Endocrine Society.
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