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Office: SW34-P GH 
Phone: 319-384-6194 
Faculty Profile

Brief description of current research:

I am an infectious diseases physician. Historically, my primary research interest been in the field of infection control and designing ways to improve infectious disease surveillance. In my practice, I saw so many infections that were in part attributable to diabetes that I became motivated to think more about diabetes as a contributing factor to infectious disease morbidity and mortality. I realized that if we want to prevent some of the most common infectious diseases we needed to think more about controlling diabetes. Thus, I decided to apply my interests in disease surveillance to the field of diabetes and obesity. A pilot grant from FOEDRC made this possible.

3 most influential diabetes/obesity/metabolism publications:

• This is a new field for me and most of my publications relate to the spread of infectious diseases.

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To prevent many common infections we need to spend more time thinking about how we can prevent diabetes.