My career path in academia from patient care to basic science research to understand the role of adipose tissue in systemic insulin sensitivity.
Barbara B Kahn, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
This session will outline the speaker’s career journey as a Physician-Scientist from working in the Berkeley Free Clinic to becoming Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Vice Chair for Research Strategy in the Department of Medicine at a major Harvard teaching hospital. She will discuss how the strong drive to improve the lives of people with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes took her from a General Medicine Fellowship to a basic Cell Biology lab at NIH and ultimately to establishing her own lab focused on adipocyte biology and mechanisms for insulin resistance at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahn’s work has been recognized by election to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.