Introduction - Dean's Workshop: Y-Weight: New Frontiers in Obesity Research at Yale

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• 00:00Welcome everyone.
• 00:01We're going to go ahead and get
• 00:04started so that we stay on time.
• 00:06So incredibly excited to be here.
• 00:08Thank you for joining
• 00:10us in person and online.
• 00:12And I have the distinct pleasure
• 00:14of introducing our Dean who will
• 00:16give the introductory and welcome.
• 00:18So Dean Nancy Brown graduated from
• 00:20Yale College and earned her medical
• 00:22degree from Harvard University.
• 00:24She completed internship and residency
• 00:26programs in medicine at Vanderbilt
• 00:28University where she also did a
• 00:30fellowship in clinical pharmacology.
• 00:31And in 2020,
• 00:32she became the the Gene and David West
• 00:35Wallace Dean of medicine and the CNH
• 00:38Long Professor of internal Medicine
• 00:40here at the Yale School of Medicine.
• 00:43Dean Brown.
• 00:49Pretty bad when you can
• 00:51have like introductions to
• 00:52introductions to introductions.
• 00:54But I am so excited to be here.
• 00:57Today we're going to hear about why wait,
• 01:00New Frontiers and Obesity Research.
• 01:01I will just highlight for you that.
• 01:05Why Wait? Is the Yale Obesity Research Center
• 01:08that was started in 2023, led by Anya?
• 01:12And you know Anya trained here doing
• 01:15both Med PEDs and double trained in
• 01:18endocrinology in adult and pediatric.
• 01:21Endocrine and has been leading many of the
• 01:24important landmark trials in pharmacotherapy,
• 01:27particularly targeting the increment system.
• 01:31Whenever we introduce new classes of drugs,
• 01:33we also discover new Physiology and I
• 01:35think there are many, many questions about.
• 01:39From what we're learning,
• 01:40you know how these drugs affect
• 01:42things like muscle mass and.
• 01:44Versus intramuscular fat.
• 01:47Rebound effects.
• 01:47And so I I hope that as we use
• 01:49these drugs more and more,
• 01:51we also are doing more.
• 01:53Investigational mechanism driven
• 01:55studies that lead back into basic
• 01:57science and new discoveries as well.
• 01:59But you'll also hear today
• 02:01about health outcomes research.
• 02:03So it's a range of of research
• 02:06and interdisciplinary teams that
• 02:08have led to this science.
• 02:10The last thing I would say is
• 02:13that it's important that you're
• 02:15you will hear about how.
• 02:18This research relates to the
• 02:19care of our patients.
• 02:21So you'll hear from Peg McGovern
• 02:23and I think you know we are.
• 02:25A School of Medicine and an
• 02:27academic health system because
• 02:28we make discoveries and we make
• 02:30those discoveries accessible to
• 02:32the human beings who are a patient.
• 02:33So that's really,
• 02:34really important and and so I will
• 02:37shut up and let us get on with the fun.
• 02:40So thank you.