Om P Ganda

Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Om P Ganda is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is Senior Physician in the Section on Adult Diabetes at Joslin Diabetes Center and on staff at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

His research interests focus on endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and lipid disorders. Professor Ganda directs the Lipid Clinic at Joslin, where he treats patients with elevated cholesterol and triglycerides. He also studies why patients with type 2 diabetes have increased susceptibility to cardiovascular disease and elevated lipids. Dr. Ganda is a co-Investigator of several ongoing clinical trials to identify better medications for people who have difficulty with exercise and diet control. The goal is to find one pill that will control not only cholesterol and triglycerides (as statins do), but also blood pressure and blood glucose.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Diabetes & Endocrinology > Diabetes & Obesity (since 23 April 2007)

Links

http://www.joslin.org/732_1814.asp

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