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A Note From the Executive Director of the Barbara
Davis Center,
Dr. George S. Eisenbarth:
"The care for diabetes is changing dramatically and with effort many of
the complications can be prevented or delayed for the majority of individuals
developing diabetes today. It is our hope (and much of our effort is devoted
to this) that current research will lead to prevention, cure and simpler effective
therapies for the disorders of diabetes."
Introduction
The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
is the largest diabetes and endocrine care program in the Colorado
community. The Center is managed as a distinct administrative unit
of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is located
within a building on the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences
Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.
In 1978, Marvin Davis generously provided funds for the construction
of the building. The Center was open in 1980 at the 9th Avenue campus in Denver and has undergone expansions
in 1983, 1986, and 1994. In May, 2005, The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes relocated to our new building within the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.
Our independent budget,
fund raising and endowments provide unique facilities and resources
for clinicians, clinical researchers and basic biomedical scientists
working to help patients with Type I diabetes. The Center provides
state-of-the-art clinical diabetes care to 80% of children
in Colorado and many adults within the Rocky Mountain Region as well as receiving
national and international referrals.
The Center faculty participates in a number of teaching activities.
Medical students rotate through the Center on elective half-day
rotations. Participants from the Child Health Associate Program,
along with Endocrine Fellows, also rotate through the Center. Basic
science faculty provide mentorship to pre-doctoral students (primarily
in immunology research) and post-doctoral fellows from around the
world.
The Executive Director of the Center is George
Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D.
The Director of the Clinical Division is Marian
Rewers, M.D., Ph.D.
The Director of the Research Division is John
C. Hutton, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Visit our Clinical
Division Faculty page for information
about individual clinical division faculty and their research interest.
Visit our Research
Division Faculty page for information about individual
research division faculty and their research interests.
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