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The Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism comprises an interdisciplinary faculty of five physicians, one PhD, and one DVM/PhD. Faculty members provide consultative inpatient and outpatient endocrinological services to the University Hospital, Jackson Medical Mall, G.V. ("Sonny") Montgomery Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, and the Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation Center. Division Director Celso Gomez-Sanchez, MD, serves as principal investigator on two studies: one has been continuously funded since 1982, and the other since 1976. He serves as an associate editor of Hypertension, a journal sponsored by the American Heart Association, and has been active in committees of the AHA and Council for High Blood Pressure Research. Chair of several symposia at the American Society of Hypertension, he was also an invited speaker at the American Society of Hypertension Meeting in New York in 2004 and at the International Symposium of Low Renin Hypertension in Ancona, Italy. William Nicholas, MD, continues to teach the course, "Introduction to Clinical Medicine" to second-year medical students, and mentors residents and fellows at the University Medical Pavilion and the Jackson Medical Mall. An accomplished investigator in nuclear receptors, Jose Subauste, MD, also provides consultative services at the G.V. ("Sonny") Montgomery Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center’s Endocrine and Lipid Clinic. He serves as principal investigator on the federally-funded study, "Dimerization and Dominant Negative Activity of v-erbA." Elise Gomez-Sanchez, DVM, PhD, serves as principal investigator for an NIH grant that has been active for more than two decades. She recently received funding for a four-year NIH study, "Adrenal Decommissioning and Hypertension." A member of the NIH Cardiovascular and Renal Study Section, Gomez-Sanchez also serves as a member and backup veterinarian for the Jackson State University I ACUC. Damian Romero, PhD, received funding to study nuclear orphan receptors and adrenal aldosterone production, and Melyssa Bratton, PhD, received an NRSA Fellowship from the NIH. Division faculty members have established a gene expression laboratory using retroviral and lentiviral vectors, as well as a facility for the generation of transgenic rats. Second-year fellow Uzma Khan, MD, presented numerous award-winning abstracts as oral and poster presentations at the ACP and Southern Society for Medical Research Meeting. | ||||
