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Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center home page The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia Presbyterian was opened in October 1998. The Center offers state-of-the-art multidisciplinary clinical care for the patient with diabetes mellitus. Comprehensive services are offered for patients of all ages and with all types of diabetes. Care is coordinated by pediatric and adult endocrinologists, assisted by nurse educators, nutritionists, family therapists, opthalmologists, exercise specialists, surgeons, and podiatrists. The Center also includes basic and clinical research activities conducted within the Centers 5,000 square feet of research space adjacent to the clinical facilities, and in laboratories of investigators affiliated with the Center. Areas of investigation include metabolic homeostasis in human obesity, molecular genetics of obesity and diabetes in rodents and humans, molecular physiology of insulin resistance, molecular biochemistry of glycosylation in diabetes complications, immunology of islet transplantation, and dyslipidemias related to diabetes mellitus. |
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