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Carrie Burns on being selected to participate in the 2025-2026 program at the Endocrine Society’s Medical School Engagement Program (MSEP). This award was designed to support UME level innovative programs focused on enhancing and supporting interest in endocrinology as a career.
Taylor Lee on her promotion to Ambulatory Nurse III, effective May 2025. This promotion recognizes her outstanding contributions to the ambulatory nursing team.
Peter Snyder for delivering the Emil Steinberger Memorial Lecture of the American Society of Andrology Conference this April. This lectureship recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of andrology.
2025 Department of Medicine Research Day Awards
Dan Bisno a PGY2 at Penn, working with Mike Rickels, for receiving this year’s Dept of Medicine Research Day Bradley Clinical Science Award by a Resident for his abstract “Time of Exercise Affects Nocturnal Hypoglycemia After Exercise in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: Results from the T1D Exercise Initiative (T1DEXI) Study”
Natalie Moore: a postdoctoral student in David Merrick’s lab, for receiving this year’s Dept of Medicine Research Day Austrian Basic Science Award by a Student for her abstract “Fibroadipogenic Progenitor-Mediated Skeletal Muscle Regeneration After Injury is Disrupted During Whole-Body Weight Loss”
Publications
Anastassia Amaro
Effect of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Agonist Medications on Weight Loss in Patients with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Gleason E, Levine L, Lee IT, Koelper N, Amaro A, Dokras A. Fertil Steril. 2025 Apr 14:S0015-0282(25)00219-5. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2025.04.009. PMID: 40239888.
Sarcopenic obesity and weight loss-induced muscle mass loss. Caturano A, Amaro A, Berra CC, Conte C. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2025 Apr 23. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000001131. PMID: 40296814.
Mike Rickels
Effect of GIP and GLP-1 infusion on bone resorption in glucose intolerant, pancreatic insufficient cystic fibrosis.
Lei WS, Chen X, Zhao L, Daley T, Phillips B, Rickels MR, Kelly A, Kindler JM. J Clin Transl Endocrinol. 2025 Apr 7;40:100392. doi: 10.1016/j.jcte.2025.100392. eCollection 2025 Jun.PMID: 40275940
Cover article for the May issue of Diabetes (see below) with analyses led by post-doctoral research fellows Anneliese Flatt and Austin Matus:
β-Cell Secretory Capacity Predicts Metabolic Outcomes Over 6 Years After Human Islet Transplantation.
Flatt AJ, Matus AM, Gallop RJ, Markmann E, Dalton-Bakes C, Peleckis AJ, Liu C, Naji A, Rickels MR. Diabetes. 2025 May 1;74(5):749-759. doi: 10.2337/db24-0729.PMID: 39630971
For the cover article in this month's Diabetes, Mike Rickels was interviewed about the paper for this month's podcast episode of Diabetes Bio. Please see the podcast link below:
https://diabetesbio.libsyn.com/michael-rickels-on-predicting-metabolic-outcomes-through-beta-cell-secretory-capacity-mark-atkinson-on-the-adas-upcoming-scientific-sessions-and-2025-banting-medal-recipient-steven-kahn
Cover article for the May issue of Diabetes Care
Islet Transplantation Versus Standard of Care for Type 1 Diabetes Complicated by Severe Hypoglycemia From the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry and the T1D Exchange Registry.
Rickels MR, Ballou CM, Foster NC, Alejandro R, Baidal DA, Bellin MD, Eggerman TL, Hering BJ, Kandeel F, Brand A, Miller KM, Barton FB, Payne EH. Diabetes Care. 2025 May 1;48(5):737-744. doi: 10.2337/dc24-1915.PMID: 39951130
Congratulations:
Mitch Lazar will receive the 2025 Kober Medal from the AAP for lifetime contributions to science in internal medicine.
Mona Al Mukaddam -- Received the 2025 Dean's Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at an Affiliated Hospital (PRESBY). This award was established in 1986 to recognize teaching excellence and commitment to medical education at affiliated hospitals. Mona's nomination was supported by many of our former fellows including Ramya, Christie, Dimpi and Javi.
Jorge Jo Kamimoto - Selected as a Penn Health-Tech Clinical Fellow for the 2025-2027
Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology, known simply as Penn Health-Tech, was established as a collaboration between PSOM, The School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Office of the Vice Provost of Research. The goal of this two year fellowship is to provide support for Jorge to develop technology in health care innovation to support inpatient diabetes
Michelle Walker - selected as Associate Program Director for Intern Recruitment and Advancement for the Internal Medicine Residency Program
Publications
Anne Cappola
Strength of Genetic Associations with Thyrotropin Values Differs Between Populations with Similarity to African and European Reference Populations | Thyroid® Wade AN, Guare L, Hayat M, Straub P, Gao Z, Medici M, Teumer A, Davis LK, Ramsay M, Ritchie MD, BioBank PM, Cappola AR. Thyroid. 2025 Feb;35(2):131-142. doi: 10.1089/thy.2024.0525. Epub 2025 Jan 27. PMID: 39869013.
Mitch Lazar
The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research. Deota S, Pendergast JS, Kolthur-Seetharam U, Esser KA, Gachon F, Asher G, Dibner C, Benitah SA, Escobar C, Muoio DM, Zhang EE, Hotamışlıgil GS, Bass J,Takahashi JS, Rabinowitz JD, Lamia KA, de Cabo R, Kajimura S, Longo VD, Xu Y, Lazar MA, Verdin E, Zierath JR, Auwerx J, Drucker DJ, Panda S. Nat Metab. 2025 Mar 17. doi: 10.1038/s42255-025-01237-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40097742.
Susan Mandel
Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology and Negative Molecular Profile: Prevalence of Malignancy and Practice Paradigms for Surveillance Nachum S, Tondi Resta I, Baloch Z, MandelSJ. Thyroid.2025 Mar;35(3). doi:10.1089/thy.2024.0455
Mike Rickels
Cognitive vulnerability to glucose fluctuations: A digital phenotype of neurodegeneration Fonseca LM, Hawks ZW, Beeri MS, Jung L, Kudva Y, Rizvi S, Bulger J, Grinspoon
E, Janess K, Sliwinski MJ, Pratley RE, Rickels MR, Weinstock RS, Chhatwal JP,
Kivisäkk P, Germine LT, Chaytor NS. Alzheimer’s Dement. 2025
Feb;21(2):e70001. doi: 10.1002/alz.70001. PMID: 39991795; PMCID: PMC11848531.