Desmond A Schatz, MD Professional

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Dr. Schatz is Interim Chair, UF College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics; Interim Physician-in-chief, UF Health Shands Children'??s Hospital; Medical Director of the Diabetes Center and Associate Director of the GCRC at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a physician-scientist and is the Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple funded peer reviewed grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). He is currently PI of the University of Florida Clinical Center participating in the NIH-funded international network (TrialNet) aimed at preventing Type 1 diabetes. He is also PI on JDRF funded studies aimed at reversing Type1 diabetes using autologous stem cells (cord blood) and serves as co-PI on a Program Project Grant examining the immunopathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes. He is co-PI for NIH-funded newborn genetic screening (PANDA) studies in North Central Florida as well as the international TEDDY consortium aimed at identifying triggers of the disease. He has served in numerous capacities for the American Diabetes Association, on the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and on study review panels for the NIH and JDRF. He also serves on the external advisory board for the NIH- and CDC-funded SEARCH study and the TODAY study in youth with type 2 diabetes and on the JDRF-funded Australian INIT II studies.

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Shands at the Univ of Florida

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