Educational Activities and Events

BBDC Seminar Series 2010-2011
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

An ongoing responsibility of the Centre is to invite researchers within Canada and the United States to present their work on diabetes research at our Seminar Series. To ensure a large attendance, seminars have been incorporated into the University of Toronto's City-wide Endocrine Rounds which are held on Friday mornings at the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Faculty wishing to meet with any of the visiting speakers should contact the BBDC at 416-978-4656 or at diabetes.bbdc@utoronto.ca.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Langerhans Meets Malthus: Beta-cell Population Size in Diabetes
Michael S. German, MD
Professor in Residence, Clinical Director, & Associate Director University of California San Francisco Diabetes Center
Justine K. Schreyer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
Friday, January 14, 2011

Sweet Genes - The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes
Robert Sladek, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & MetabolismMcGill University
Friday, February 18, 2011

Obesity and Metabolic Diseases: The Skinny on Fat Synthesis and Storage
Robert V. Farese, Jr., MD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Friday, April 29, 2011

Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Samuel Klein, MD
William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Director, Center for Applied Research Sciences
Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

If your organization wishes to support our seminar series, please contact:
Rose LaBarbera
Banting & Best Diabetes Centre
Phone: (416) 978-4656    E-mail: diabetes.bbdc@utoronto.ca