Enrichment Program
About the Program
The Enrichment Program of the DRTC consists of a bi-weekly seminar series, periodic round-table discussions, larger scale Diabetes-related workshops, conferences, short courses, and a web-based video series. All of these activities are integrated into a comprehensive Program that serves two key aims of the DRTC. First, it is central to the DRTC mission to promote inter- actions and discussions among the investigator base to foster multidisciplinary collaborations. These interactions serve to keep individual faculty abreast of the latest developments in the field, but they also provide a rich environment of ideas and personal contacts from which cross-disciplinary collaborative projects are born. Thus, the Enrichment Program is central to a sense of intellectual community that will not only involve Regular and Supported members of the DRTC, but Clinical and Affiliate members as well. Secondly, the Enrichment Program is critical for education and training for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and clinical trainees. The Enrichment Program also serves as a convenient portal of entry for non-DRTC faculty and students in the UAB and Southern Research Institute communities to gain access to the latest information regarding diabetes mellitus research activities, thereby fostering additional collaborations.
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Director
Dennis J Pillion, PhD
Volker Hall L 108
1670 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294
(p) 934-4570
Email: dpillion@uab.edu
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