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Event Details

Type

Special Seminar Series

Speaker(s)

Helen Hobbs, M.D., chief, division of medical genetics, director, McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, and professor, departments of internal medicine and molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Dr. Hobbs attended Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. After completing an internship in medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, she finished her clinical training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein before joining the faculty of UT Southwestern in 1987. Dr. Hobbs is now director of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, which serves as the Center for Human Genetics at UT Southwestern. She is also director of the Dallas Heart Study, a longitudinal, multiethnic, population-based study of Dallas County that she established in 2000. Dr. Hobbs works to define genetic factors contributing to susceptibility (and resistance) to metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Most recently, her focus has been on the genetics of fatty liver disease. Dr. Hobbs is a member of the Institute of Medicine (2004), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the National Academy of Sciences (2007). She received the Heinrich Wieland Prize (2005), the American Heart Association Clinical Research Prize (2005) and Distinguished Scientist Award (2007) and the International Society of Atherosclerosis Prize (2012). She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2002.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Lower Level Greenberg Building (CRC)

Contact

Jill Benz

Phone

(212) 327-7244

Sponsor

Jill Benz
(212) 327-7244
benzj@rockefeller.edu