Robert Henry

Department of Medicine, Section of Diabetes/Metabolism, University of California at San Diego, United States of America

Robert Henry is Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes, UCSD. He is also Director of the Center for Metabolic Research at the VA Medical Center in San Diego.

His primary research interests involve studies on the etiology, treatment, and prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Of particular interest have been the metabolic and cardiovascular effects of novel therapies for insulin resistance and diabetes, as well as defects of insulin signal transduction in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue of type 2 diabetic subjects.

Professor Henry's honors include awards from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Endocrinology and Metabolism. He has been the recipient of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International Mary Jane Kugel Award, the Veterans Administration Research Career Development Award and the National Institutes of Health-NIDDK FIRST Research Award. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Diabetes & Endocrinology > Diabetes & Obesity (since 16 November 2005)

Robert Henry is a Section Head for Diabetes & Obesity, part of the DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

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