Clifton Bogardus III, M.D. 

Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, Chief

NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
4212 N. 16th Street, Room 541
Phoenix, AZ 85016-5319

Phone:602-200-5200 or 602-200-5300
Email: Clifton_Bogardus@nih.gov

EDUCATION:

Lafayette College, 1970 (B.S.)
University of Rochester School of Medicine, 1974 (M.D.)
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, NH, 1974-1975 (Internship)
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, NH, 1975-1979 (Residency, Internal Medicine)
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, 1979-1982 (Fellowship, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The scientific mission of the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch (PECRB) is to determine the etiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus as it occurs among Pima Indians of Arizona. This population of Native Americans has the highest reported prevalence and incidence rate of this disease of any population in the world.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Nair S Lee YH Lindsay RS Walker BR Tataranni PA Bogardus C Baier LJ Permana PA 11beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase Type 1: genetic polymorphisms are associated with Type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians independently of obesity and expression in adipocyte and muscle. Diabetologia (47): 1088-95, 2004.

Kovacs P Harper I Hanson RL Infante AM Bogardus C Tataranni PA Baier LJ A Novel Missense Substitution (Val1483Ile) in the Fatty Acid Synthase Gene (FAS) Is Associated With Percentage of Body Fat and Substrate Oxidation Rates in Nondiabetic Pima Indians. Diabetes (53): 1915-9, 2004.

Stumvoll M Tataranni PA Bogardus C The role of glucose allostasis in type 2 diabetes. Rev Endocr Metab Disord (5): 99-103, 2004.

Thameem F Farook VS Yang X Lee YH Permana PA Bogardus C Prochazka M The transcribed endosulfine alpha gene is located within a type 2 diabetes-linked region on 1q: sequence and expression analysis in Pima Indians. Mol Genet Metab (81): 16-21, 2004.

Last update: 5/5/2006