RCMI Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

CDC's Dr. Robert Vogt Presents Seminar

Last January 25, Dr. Robert Vogt, of the CDC, visited the Medical Sciences Campus to present a seminar titled Diabetes Prevention Research: Public Health Practice in the Next Millenium, as part of the 1998-1999 RCMI Special Seminar Series co-sponsored by the RCMI Basic Research Program and the RCMI Clinical Research Center.

Dr.Vogt is the head of the flow cytometry laboratory at the National Center for Environmental Health's (NCEH), Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. The NCEH is one of the many centers comprising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has set the international standard for measuring human exposure to environmental toxins as well as for measuring the presence of the factors leading to various long-term diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

In his seminar, Dr. Vogt announced the theme of a workshop organized last February at the CDC on the institution's initiative to develop an effective national screening program to detect newborns at high risk of type 1 diabetes. The event was called CDC Workshop on the Role of Dried Blood Spots in Diabetes Prevention Research, and Medical Sciences Campus faculty members, Dr. Emma Fernández-Repollet, Director of the RCMI Program, and Dr. Lilliam González Pijem, Director of the Pediatric Diabetes Clinic, were invited participants.

Dania Rodríguez-Díaz,
RCMI Program Administrator
March 4, 1999

Emma Fernández-Repollet,Ph.D.

Program Director

RCMI Program

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