Education
EDUCATION: Endocrinology & Metabolism
Highlight: The Diabetes Epidemic — Innovative strategies to educate patients and train the trainers
Division faculty provide undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and CME educational content. The Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education continues to provide quality distance learning and support materials for diabetes educators throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The division is approved by the ACGME to accept four fellows per year, for two-year (primarily clinical) or three-year (clinical plus research) fellowships.
Institutional training grants from the NIH allow fellows to obtain funding for research and salary support during the second and third year of their fellowship. The division currently has two active T32 training grants: Research Training in Diabetes and Hormone Action, directed by Eugene Barrett, and Research Training in Neuroendocrinology, directed by Robert Carey.
Endocrinology’s fellows during 2012-2013 were:
2012-2013 Endocrinology fellows (left to right): Amanda (Mandy) Russell-Kleiner, Ruchi Bhabhra, Cristina Gherghe, Sharmila Subaran, Amy Anderson, Greg Hong, Shree Gundu Rao, Wenyan Huang, Jennifer Gibert, and Katarina Topchyan.
Third Year
- Cristina Gherghe
- Greg Hong
Second Year
- Amy Anderson
- Ruchi Bhabhra
- Nagashree Gundu Rao
- Sharmila Subaran
First Year
- Wenyan Huang
- Jennifer Gibert
- Katarina Topchyan
- Amanda Russell-Kleiner
The second-year fellows did exceptionally well in the past year: Amy Anderson received an Endocrine Fellows Foundation Grant to support her research; Ruchi Bhabhra was awarded an F32 NRSA which received an very high score; Shree Gundu Rao received an Endocrine Society fellows travel grant award for a poster presentation; and Sharmila Subaran won the best oral presentation at the department’s Scholars-Research Day.