Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, January 26, 2024
Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Nursing, Director of Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Leader of Johns Hopkins Diabetes Initiative; Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Metabolic Origins of Disease; Director, Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Diabetes Research Center; Director, Johns Hopkins Osler Residency Physician Scientist Training Program
Obesity Lessons from President William Howard Taft
Recommended Readings:
Clark, Jeanne M., et al. “Obesity and Overweight: Probing Causes, Consequences, and Novel Therapeutic Approaches Through the American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network.” Journal of the American Heart Association 12.4 (2023): e027693.
Klein, Samuel, et al. “Why does obesity cause diabetes?.” Cell metabolism 34.1 (2022): 11-20.
Ahima, Rexford S., and Mitchell A. Lazar. “The health risk of obesity—better metrics imperative.” Science 341.6148 (2013): 856-858.
Levine, Deborah I. “Corpulence and correspondence: President William H. Taft and the medical management of obesity.” Annals of Internal Medicine 159.8 (2013): 565-570.
Ahima, Rexford S. “Digging deeper into obesity.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation 121.6 (2011): 2076-2079.
