Introduction - Dean's Workshop: Y-Weight: New Frontiers in Obesity Research at Yale
March 07, 2024ID11428
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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.