PROGRAM LEADERSHIP

Executive Committee

Terry G. Unterman, MD – Program Director
Email: [email protected]
Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics
Research interests: gene regulation, insulin signaling, FoxO transcription factors, regulation of hepatic carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.

Brian T. Layden, MD, PhD – Program Co-Director
Email: [email protected]
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics
Research interests: microbiome, short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) receptors in metabolic regulation and islet biology, genetics of diabetes, hexokinase DC1 in diabetes and physiology.

Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Edmund F. Foley Professor of Medicine, Director, Institute for Minority Health Research
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, PI of the Chicago Field Center for the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Research interests: minority health, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular risk, especially in Hispanic and underserved communities.

Salman Khetani, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Research interests: The Microfabricated Tissue Models laboratory (mtm.uic.edu) fabricates in vitro models of the liver (animal and human) for studying the role of dietary and inflammatory triggers on the development and progression of non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver diseases and how they affect diabetes outcomes. The lab develops state-of-the-art 3D culture techniques to maintain the phenotype of multiple types of liver cell types in vitro for prolonged culture to investigate disease mechanisms in collaboration with physician scientists.

Lauretta Quinn, PhD, BSN
Email: [email protected]
Minnich Professor and Director, Center for Sleep and Health Research, Clinical Professor of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Research, College of Nursing
Research interests: psychological (e.g., quality of life), behavioral (e.g., diabetes self-management) and physiological (e.g., substrate response to exercise) aspects of diabetes; development and application of open- and closed-loop artificial pancreas systems in people with type 1 diabetes (with Dr. Ali Cinar).

Robert M. Sargis, MD, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Director, Physician-Scientist Development Program, Department of Medicine, Group Leader, ChicAgo Center for Health and Environment (CACHET)
Research interests: endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), environmental drivers of metabolic disease risk, insulin signaling, insulin secretion and islet biology, diabetes, obesity, lipid metabolism, environmental justice, health disparities

Pingwen Xu, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics.
Research interests: neural pathways for energy balance, glucose homeostasis, binge eating/drinking, and other behaviors. We use chemogenetics/optogenetics, electrophysiology and neurotracing methods to establish physiological relevance of neural networks in the regulation of energy homeostasis, glucose balance and behaviors.

If you have specific questions about the process, please contact Terry Unterman, MD (Program Director) ([email protected]) or Pamela Terrell ([email protected]) who will answer your questions or forward your inquiry to the appropriate person.

INSTRUCTIONS: In order to add a sidebar anchor:

  1. Duplicate the existing item, listed as a 1/6 text field. (Or create a 1/6 column and add a text field, modify the class so it’s exactly “additionalAnchor”).
  2. Modify the text field inside the 1/6 column. Inside there, modify the HYPERLINK so that it would go to a corresponding section with a “#” in front of it. (Example, we have a “chief” section on the page, then it would make sense to have the hyperlink go to “#chief”)
  3. Then change the hyperlink TEXT to a appropriate label.
  4. IMPORTANT: If not done already, go into that CONTAINER that corresponds to your anchor (i.e. Meet The Chiefs), and add an ID matching the anchor’s HYPERLINK WITHOUT the “#”, i.e. “chief”.
  5. (If using side bar widget box, then there’s a saved copy of a widget box COLUMN, grab it in the column library, it should 1/6 of a length of a column.)

NOTE: Order added to the sidebar is from last to first.