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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School
Director of Clinical Research, Joslin Diabetes Center
Past President, American Diabetes
Association
Edward S. Horton, M.D., received his medical
degree from Harvard Medical School in 1957. Following an internship
in surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland,
he performed part of his residency in pathology at Dartmouth
Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the remainder
in medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North
Carolina. After completing his residency in 1964, Dr. Horton
remained at Duke while serving in various fellowship positions
in endocrinology. In 1967, he joined the staff at the University
of Vermont College of Medicine and the Medical Center Hospital
of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, where he worked for twenty-six
years primarily as Director of Endocrinology and Metabolism
and then later as Chairman of the Department of Medicine and
Chief of the Medical Service. In 1993, he was appointed Chief
of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Deaconess
Hospital and Medical Director for the Joslin Diabetes Center
in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently he is Vice President and
Director of Clinical Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center.
His major interests include obesity and insulin resistance
as they relate to diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease;
the regulation of energy balance and metabolic fuel homeostasis;
the regulation of glucose transport and metabolism in skeletal
muscle and adipose tissue; and the effects of exercise and
physical training on insulin sensitivity. Dr. Horton is Professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has over 250 publications
to his credit. He is also the recipient of several awards
and distinctions, including the Banting Medal for Distinguished
Service awarded by the American Diabetes Association, the
American Society for Clinical Nutrition's Robert H. Herman
Award, the Mizuno Award and Lectureship, the International
Diabetes Federation John A. Galloway Award and Lectureship,
the ADA Outstanding Physician Educator Award and the Distinguished
Physician Award from the Endocrine Society. He has served
as Associate Editor of Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Obesity Research
and the American Journal of Physiology and on the editorial
boards of numerous other journals including the Journal of
Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Dr. Horton is past president of the American Diabetes Association
and the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. He has also
served as Chairman of the National Diabetes Advisory Board.
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