Educational Activities and Events

BBDC Seminar Series 2012-2013
In conjunction with City-wide Endocrine Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Mount Sinai Hospital, Lebovic Building
60 Murray Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room

 The BBDC will be hosting the following seminars at City-wide Endocrine Rounds. Faculty wishing to meet with Dr. Herzig should contact Dr. Carolyn Cummins at Carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca .  Faculty wishing to meet with any of the other visiting speakers should contact Chris Sargent at chris.sargent@utoronto.ca . 

Friday, October 26, 2012 New Developments in the Pathogenesis of Fatty Liver Disease
Jay D. Horton, MD
Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity & Diabetes Research
Professor, Internal Medicine, Molecular Genetics
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Friday, November 2, 2012 To Burn or to Store: The Quality of Fat and Energy Homeostasis
Stephan Herzig, MD
Professor and Division Head, Joint Research Division
Molecular Metabolic Control
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg
Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg University Hospital
(Co-hosted by the BBDC and the Faculty of Pharmacy)
Friday, February 22, 2013 A Novel Pathway Regulating SREBP-1c and De Novo Lipogenesis
Jeffrey Pessin, PhD
Judy R. & Alfred A. Rosenberg Professorial Chair in Diabetes Research
Director, Diabetes Research Center
Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Friday, April 19, 2013 Role of Insulin Action and Resistance on Atherosclerosis
George L. King, MD
Chief Scientific Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

The full City-wide Endocrine Rounds (CWER) schedule can be viewed on the U of T Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism website at http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca under Quick Links.

If your organization wishes to support our seminar series, please contact:
Chris Sargent
Banting & Best Diabetes Centre
Phone: (416) 978-3498   
E-mail: chris.sargent@utoronto.ca