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Distinguished Faculty
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| Biography: Jerry Palmer, MD |
 Dr. Jerry Palmer is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and Director of the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center(DERC) at the University of Washington. His research interests focus on type 1 diabetes and encompass both clinical/translational research and basic laboratory research. He was director of the DCCT clinical center and currently directs the DCCT/EDIC and the TRIGR clinical centers at the University of Washington. He is actively involved in TrialNet and directs the beta cell function and the cellular immunoblotting core laboratories for this organization. His basic science laboratory previously focused on autoantibodies as markers of the type 1 diabetes (T1DM) disease process, they first identified insulin autoantibodies in the preclinical period of T1DM, and his laboratory currently focuses on t-cell reactivity to islet antigens in T1DM. He is especially interested in Type 1.5 diabetes or LADA, the autoimmune diabetes that occurs in patients with many of the characteristics of Type 2 diabetes. He is a member of the ASCI and the AAP and currently sits on the NIDDK advisory council. He has been an associate editor of Diabetes, on the editorial boards of Diabetes Care and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and is very frequently asked to review grants and manuscripts nationally and internationally. Because of his long term interest in the prediction and more recently the prevention of T1DM, he is chairman of the protocol committee for the GAD vaccination prevention study that will be performed by TrialNet and is Principal Investigator of the recently initiated United States registration trial of GAD vaccination in recently diagnosed T1DM patients. |
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