Theodore E. Woodward Professor and Chair of Medicine Physician-in-Chief, University of Maryland Medical Center
Department: Division Medicine Medicine: General Internal Medicine Medicine: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition
Special Interests:
Insulin action
Hypoglycemic counterregulation
Neural control of metabolism
Exercise physiology
New treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Medical Degree: London University Royal Free School of Medicine (M.B.B.S.)
Residency: Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Eli Lilly Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Medical Research Council Traveling Fellow, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Fellow, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Certification: Internal Medicine; Endocrinology
Biography:
Stephen N. Davis, M.B.B.S. is an
internationally recognized endocrinologist
and research scientist who joined the
University of Maryland School of Medicine
as the Theodore E. Woodward Endowed Chair,
and the Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Medicine. Dr. Davis also is
Chief of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at
the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Davis is a native of the United Kingdom
who earned his medical degree from London
University and did his specialty training
at the Royal College of Physicians. Dr. Davis
joined Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine in 1988. He was promoted to Director
of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology
and Metabolism, and professor of medicine,
molecular physiology and biophysics.
He also served as associate director of the
General Clinical Research Center at
Vanderbilt, and for five years, ending in
2002, he was director of the Nashville
Veterans Affairs/Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
International Research and Training Center.
Dr. Davis has been recognized with many
distinguished awards throughout his career,
including the Novartis Award for Diabetes
Research in 2000 -- considered to be the
highest honor in that field of research.
He was named a Fellow of the American College
of Physicians in 2009, a Fellow of the
American College of Endocrinologists in 2008
and a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians in 2001.
He currently leads research projects with
extramural funding totaling $10 million.
His research focuses on the mechanisms that
defend against a falling blood glucose
level, a condition known as hypoglycemia.
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