"The Secretory Life of the World’s Most Awesome Hormone"

Speaker:

Jeffrey Zigman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Jeffrey Zigman:

Originally from Bradford, Pennsylvania, Dr. Zigman holds a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He earned his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. He earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Chicago. He then received advanced training through a clinical and research fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism under Dr. Joel Elmquist and Dr. Jeffrey Garber at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dr. Zigman joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2006.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Zigman is Chair of the Molecular Metabolism & Metabolic Diseases Graduate Track. He is also the Director of the Enrichment Program at the UT Southwestern Nutrition and Obesity Research Center. The Zigman Lab investigates the hormonal/neuronal basis for eating behavior, blood glucose control, and related processes, with the goal of designing new methods to prevent and treat conditions such as obesity, diabetes, anorexia nervosa, ALS, and cancer cachexia.