Medicine Grand Rounds with UT Health's Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer

The Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson presents:

Topic: “Friend or Foe? Insulin Resistance in the Failing Heart”

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, DPhil, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FIACS 

Noon-1 p.m., Lecture Hall, Room 5403
College of Medicine – Tucson
(See flyer below for ALL virtual viewing links.)

— A light lunch will be provided. —

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Presenter: Dr. Taegtmeyer received his medical degree (summa cum laude) from Germany’s University of Freiburg in 1968, and his doctorate in biochemistry from the UK’s University of Oxford in 1981. He joined the University of Texas McGovern Medical School faculty in Houston in 1982. He served as director of the its Cardiovascular Fellowship Program (1988-94) and achieved the rank of full professor in 1991. His lab has received NIH research funding consistently over the last 30 years. He is a reviewer for many competitive journals; has served as an associate editor for Circulation (1993-2004) and Cardiology (1993-present); and is on the editorial boards of Circulation Research, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology – Imaging. Dr. Taegtmeyer lecturers worldwide on heart failure, diabetes, and heart metabolism.

A member of Alpha Omega Alpha, Dr. Taegtmeyer also is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences. He served as president of the Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism (2006-09). He has supervised 12 graduate students and 16 postdoctoral fellows, and mentored 15 medical or surgical residents on research rotations as well as 43 summer students. Many of his students hold academic appointments in the U.S. (Yale, UCLA, UCSD, Baylor College of Medicine, UT Medical Branch, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the UT Houston Medical School) and in Germany.

Dr. Taegtmeyer was a full member of the NIH Metabolism Study Section (1989-93) and has since served as an ad hoc member of various NIH study sections on a yearly basis. In 2005, the Director of the NHLBI named him to the NIH Protocol Review Committee for the IMMEDIATE Trial. In 2006, he was named to the NHLBI Data Safety Monitoring Board for the IMMEDIATE Trial. He has served on the scientific advisory committee of the University Clinical Research Center since 1995, and on the MacDonald Fund Research Committee since 2007.

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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Medicine Grand Rounds are held in Room 5403, on the fifth floor of the College of Medicine – Tucson. To view Medicine Grand Rounds remotely, see this live weblink: https://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/streaming/. To view it after the fact, click on "Archive" at the top of this same link's webpage and, from the dropdown menu under "Category," select "Medicine Grand Rounds" and click "Search" to find the event you're seeking.

Accreditation Statement: The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement: All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians

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