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Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Take 5 for Diabetes Education Program is a series of 5 class meetings designed for individuals with Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or those who have a family history of diabetes. To learn more, click here. |
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| The Division of Clinical Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome |
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The Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome includes the Behavioral Medicine, Clinical Obesity, and Obesity Physiology interest groups.This Division is the largest one at the Pennington Center. It serves as an intellectual focus for the clinical, behavioral and physiological faculty and is comprised of one Boyd Professor, eight Professors, five Associate Professors, five Assistant Professors four Instructors and three postdoctoral fellows.
The divisional members have been very successful in obtaining outside funding. The current grant awards, including direct and indirect costs, total more than $8 million. This funding supports a number of major clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, including the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome Study, the Look AHEAD Study, the Weight Loss Maintenance Trial, the Prevention of Obesity Using Novel Dietary Strategies (POUNDS LOST) trial, Healthy Transitions, HIPTeens, and Wise Mind. Additional funding comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project on Dietary Fat and Obesity and for an Intervention trial in the Mississippi Delta called Delta NIRI.There is also funding from the Department of Defense for a Weight Management Program.There are a number of clinical trials supported by the major pharmaceutical companies. This high level of clinical activity will require the recruitment of more than 1000 subjects in this current year. To do this and to house the trial coordinators for this work, we have had to bring onto the Pennington Center property five temporary trailers.
As a mark of scholarly activity, the members of the Division have established a significant publication record during 2003. This includes four books, 83 original papers, 23 chapters and reviews, 18 miscellaneous publications and 97 abstracts.
The Division participated in the distribution of $25,000 for Pilot and Feasibility projects that was made available by the center.Three younger faculty members were picked for awards after submission of project outlines and reviews.
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