{"id":4614,"date":"2014-11-24T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2014-11-24T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:23:14","slug":"public-talk-drugs-diet-and-genes-to-treat-diabetes-obesity-nov-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/11\/24\/public-talk-drugs-diet-and-genes-to-treat-diabetes-obesity-nov-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Talk: Drugs, Diet, and Genes to Treat Diabetes &amp; Obesity, Nov 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the link between obesity and diabetes, current treatment options for type 2 diabetes and how genetics and personalized medicine will inform better treatments in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker Panel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator:\u00a0<\/strong>Timothy Kieffer, PhD<br \/>\nGroup Leader and Professor, UBC LSI Diabetes Research Group<br \/>\nDepts of Cellular &amp; Physiological Sciences and Surgery<br \/>\nCanadian Diabetes Association Scholar<\/p>\n<p><em>Insulin \u2013 The good, the bad and the complicated:\u00a0<\/em>Jim Johnson, PhD<br \/>\nAssociate Professor, UBC LSI Diabetes Research Group<br \/>\nDept of Cellular &amp; Physiological Sciences<\/p>\n<p><em>Do these genes make me fat?\u00a0<\/em>Susanne Clee, PhD<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, UBC LSI Diabetes Research Group<br \/>\nDept of Cellular &amp; Physiological Sciences<\/p>\n<p><em>New drugs in diabetes<\/em>:\u00a0Tom Elliott, MD<br \/>\nMedical Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ubc.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=820ba5406ce97ad5bc671f983&amp;id=7b5ea4e565&amp;e=7f5ec37acf\">bcdiabetes.ca<\/a><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Medicine, UBC<\/p>\n<p><em>Diabetes management \u2013 How do I do what my doctor asked me to do?:\u00a0<\/em>Gerri Klein, RN, MSN<br \/>\nCertified Diabetes Educator,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ubc.us3.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=820ba5406ce97ad5bc671f983&amp;id=118a0f76ba&amp;e=7f5ec37acf\">bcdiabetes.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When: Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 6 \u2013 8 PM<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nWhere: <strong>Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level,\u00a0Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>RSVP at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ubc.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=820ba5406ce97ad5bc671f983&amp;id=60aa70fd13&amp;e=7f5ec37acf\">http:\/\/lsi.ubc.ca\/2014\/10\/18\/upcoming-talk-drugs-diet-and-genes-personal-approaches-to-treat-diabetes-and-obesity-november-26th<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the link between obesity and diabetes, current treatment options for type 2 diabetes and how genetics and personalized medicine will inform better treatments in the near future. Speaker Panel: Moderator:\u00a0Timothy Kieffer, PhD Group Leader and Professor, UBC LSI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/11\/24\/public-talk-drugs-diet-and-genes-to-treat-diabetes-obesity-nov-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69305],"tags":[8308,8873,6812,196,1734,1108361],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events","tag-diabetes","tag-diet","tag-genetics","tag-medicine","tag-obesity","tag-public-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}