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Frederick Brancati, M.D., MHS

Research and Professional Experience Following a 3-yr GIM Fellowship at Hopkins, I joined the faculty in the School of Medicine in 1992, with an active joint appointment in Epidemiology. I'm interested in the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitu..

DRTC - Johns Hopkins University/University of Maryland


Investigators from University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University have joined together to create the Baltimore Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC). The Center fosters collaborative, multidisciplinary diabetes and endocrinology rese...

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Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD

Professor Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth. She joins the Brown School this summer and will help advance the School'..

DRTC - Washington University


The Washington University Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) provides resources for the support and coordination of the research and training activities in diabetes and related metabolic and endocrine disorders of a large and growing number of independently funde...

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John D. Piette, Ph.D.

Dr. Piette is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and a senior research associate at the Ann Arbor VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research. He has conducted a number of multi-site diabetes randomized trials focusing on the use of ..

DRTC - University of Michigan


The Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center is a multidisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan Health System funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1977. MDRTC is one of seven NIH Diabetes Research and Training Centers in the United States.M...

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Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Fouad is a Professor in the UAB Division of Preventive Medicine, Director of the UAB Minority Health and Research Center, and Senior Scientist in the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Aging at UAB. Dr. Fouad is the Principal Investigator on numerou..

DRTC - University of Alabama at Birmingham


The UAB Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) focuses on developing new methods to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure diabetes and its complications. The DRTC is a multi-disciplinary operation with faculty researche...

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Tom A. Elasy , M.D., M.P.H.

Diabetes is ever present. Everyone has a family member who is touched by this disease. Recent estimates are that a child born this century has a 1 in 3 chance of developing diabetes during his/her lifetime - and that is a conservative estimate. However, diabetes is..

DRTC - Vanderbilt University


The Vanderbilt DRTC, an interdisciplinary program involving 98 participating faculty distributed among 18 departments in two schools and four colleges at Vanderbilt and at neighboring Meharry Medical College, consists of:Administrative Component that coordinate...

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Elizabeth A. Walker, Ph.D.

Elizabeth A. Walker, PhD, RN, is the director of the Prevention and Control Division for the Diabetes Research and Training Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Walker is currently the principal investigator of a large NIH-funded behavioral intervention s..

DRTC - Albert Einstein College of Medicine


The Diabetes Research Center was established in 1977, with the award of a Diabetes Research and Training Center grant from the National Institutes of Health. The mission of the Diabetes Research and Training Center is to:* Support th...

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Marshall Chin, M.D.

Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, FACP, Director of the DRTC Prevention and Control Core, Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine, is a general internist who seeks to improve the care of vulnerable patients with..

DRTC - University of Chicago


The University of Chicago Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) provides resources for the support and coordination of the research and training activities in diabetes and related metabolic and endocrine disorders of a large and growing number of independently funde...

Objectives / Mission

The mission of the Prevention and Control Cores of the Diabetes Research Centers program is to foster innovative research related to patients, communities, providers, organizations, systems, and policies that are designed to enhance prevention and management of diabetes and its complications.

By providing necessary scientific infrastructure and consultation, the Diabetes Research and Training Center Prevention and Control Cores focus on research that:

  •      Addresses clinical, behavioral, social, and economic determinants of health
  •      Achieves health equity in outcomes and access to care
  •      Achieves wide reach and population-based impact
  •      Is transdisciplinary
  •      Is methodologically rigorous

 

Diabetes Centers Overview

The NIDDK-supported Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centers (DERCs) and Diabetes Research and Training Centers (DRTCs) are part of an integrated program of diabetes and related endocrinology and metabolism research. Centers provide increased, cost effective collaboration among multidisciplinary groups of investigators at institutions with an established, comprehensive research base in diabetes and related areas of endocrinology and metabolism. DERCs and DRTCs are intended to improve the quality and multidisciplinary nature of research on diabetes by providing shared access to specialized technical resources and expertise. Both DERCs and DRTCs are intended to facilitate progress in research with the goal of developing new methods to treat, prevent and ultimately cure diabetes mellitus and its complications.