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Timothy Garvey, MD

External Advisory Committee Member

PI of Diabetes Research Center (DRC)

Professor of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Garvey’s research focuses on the metabolic, molecular, and genetic pathogenesis of insulin resistance, Type 2 Diabetes, and obesity. His studies have involved the cellular and molecular biology of cell and animal models, metabolic investigations of human subjects on metabolic research wards, and the genetic basis of diseases in Gullah-speaking African Americans, Pima Indians, and national cohorts of diabetes patients. Dr. Garvey is the founding PI of the UAB Diabetes Research Center from 2008 to the present and a program project funded by the American Heart Association entitled "Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease".

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