F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D., M.P.H.

CURRICULUM VITAE:

F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer is Director of the Obesity Research Center and Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Pi-Sunyer is also Director of the Joslin Center for Diabetes at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. He is an Attending Physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital. Dr. Pi-Sunyer is also Professor of Applied Physiology at Columbia Teachers College and on the faculty of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

His research interests are in the hormonal control of carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes mellitus, obesity and food intake regulation. He has over 200 publications in these areas. Dr. Pi-Sunyer is a past president of the American Diabetes Association, the American Society for the Clinical Nutrition, and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He has been honored as a Fellow of the Fogarty International Center of the national institutes of health. He serves on the NIDDK Task Force for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and has been a member of numerous NIH study sections and review groups. He is presently Chairman of the National Heart and Lung Institute Task Force on the Treatment of Obesity. He is a member of the New York State Health Research Council. He is Associate Editor of Obesity Research and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Obesity. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.D. from Columbia University, and an M.P.H. from Harvard University.

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STUDIES: Diabetes Prevention Program Study

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