TCU's department of kinesiology hosts Dr. Abhimanyu Garg, a leading researcher on diabetes as a Green Honors Chair Thursday, April 1. Dr. Garg will present four lectures from 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. ranging from proper diet for diabetics to understanding inherited and acquired body fat storing diseases. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Dr. Garg is a professor of internal medicine and chief of the division of nutrition and metabolic diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He holds an endowed chair in human nutrition research and also is a senior nutrition research scholar in the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Garg is also director of the diabetes clinic at the Veteran's Association North Texas Health Care System in Dallas.

"Dr. Garg's research is critical to understanding how certain metabolic problems such as diabetes and high cholesterol levels develop in patients with body fat disorders," said Dr. Meena Shah, assistant professor of kinesiology. "His recent studies have found new genes involved in regulation of body fat storage and their role in controlling metabolic processes."

Dr. Garg received an M.D. from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India. He completed his training in internal medicine in New Delhi and endocrine training at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is a member of the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, American Federation of Medical Research and his election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation is representative of his leading research in the fields of diabetes and insulin resistance.

The lecture schedule follows:

9:30 -10:50 a.m.

New Concepts of Nutrition for Diabetics

Rickel Academic Wing, room 044



11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Leptin Replacement Therapy for Hypoleptinemic States - understanding how protein produced by fat cells can improve metabolic disorders

Rickel Academic Wing, room 044



2 - 3 p.m.

Insulin Resistance and Adiposity - understanding how the overloading of tissues with fat affects our bodies' ability to respond to insulin

Sid Richardson Building, lecture hall 3



5 - 6 p.m.

Genetic and Acquired Adipose Tissue Disorders - understanding inherited and acquired fat storing diseases

Sid Richardson Building, lecture hall 2



For more information on Dr. Garg's presentation, please contact Meena Shah at 817-257-6871 or m.shah@tcu.edu.