Past Conferences
- April 2, 2008
Speaker: Melissa K. Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Title: First Annual Henry L. Brasza Lecture in Diabetes
“Targeting Insulin Deficiency in Diabetes by Regulating Pancreatic Beta-Cell Mass and Fuction”
- April 9, 2008
Speaker: Suzette Robinson, M.D., Fellow, WSU
Title: “Hirsutism”
- April 16, 2008
Speaker: Neelima Singh, M.D., Fellow, WSU
Title: “Male Hypogonadism”
- April 23, 2008
Speaker: Kahtleen C. Moltz, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical, Pediatrics
Title: “Growth Evaluation and Growth Hormone Defeciency in Kids”
- April 30, 2008
Speaker: Ariel Barkan, M.D.,Professor of Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Health System
Title: “New Advances for the Treatment and Management of Patients with Acromegaly with Somatuline Depot”
- March 5, 2008
Speaker: Fateh Elkhatib, M.D., Fellow, WSU
Title: “Pheochromocytoma”
- March 12, 2008
Speaker: Assia Shisheva, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology, WSU
Title: “The PIKfyve-ArPIKfyve-Sac3 Trio in Orchestrating Insulin Responsiveness”
- March 19, 2008
Speaker: William Kupsky, M.D., Professor of Pathology, DMC/WSU
Title: “Pathology of The Pituitary Gland”
- February 6, 2008
Speaker: Todd Leff, Ph.D., Associate Professor, WSU
Title: “TZDS, PPARy and Bone”
- February 13, 2008
Speaker: Beverly MK Biller, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: “Clinical Challenges of Cushing’s Syndrome”
- February 20, 2008
Speaker: Veena Watwe, M.D., Fellow-Endocrinology, WSU
Title: “Turners Syndrome”
- February 27, 2008
Speaker: Richard Miller, M.D., Professor, Veterans Administration Hospital, WSU
Title: “Management of Type 2 DM – 2008 Focus on Incretins”
- January 2, 2008
Speaker: Melissa Lingohr, M.D., WSU
Title: “Reciprocal Signals Between Endothelial Cells and Pancreatic B-Cells that Increase Islet Microvasculature, Proliferation and Survival”
- January 9, 2008
Speaker: Berhnae Seyoum, M.D., Assistant Professor, Endocrinology, WSU School of Medicine
Title: “Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase DGAT Enzyme for Obesity”
- January 16, 2008
Speaker: Abdul Abou-Samra, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Division of Endocrinology, WSU School of Medicine
Title: “Cushings Ds and Adrenal Axis”
- January 23, 2008
Speaker: Chu Jau-Wen, M.D., WSU/DMC
Title: “Laboratory Aspects of Endocrine Testing”
- January 30, 2008
Speaker: Lawrence Diebel, M.D., Department of Surgery
Title: “Adrenal and Thyroid Surgeries”