Endocrinology & Diabetes research

The Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes performs clinical research in the areas of diabetes and thyroid cancer as well as basic research in diabetic complications and regulation of growth factor activity.

Achievements

Professor Leon Bach (CIF) is part of a team led by Professor Mark Cooper (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute), who were awarded $2.5 million for the JDRF/NHMRC Diabetes Complications Centre of Research Excellence for 2014-2019.

Dr Kathryn Hackman and James Lee completed PhDs on their respective topics of ‘Diabetes and lung transplantation’ and ‘Thyroid cancer and microRNA’.

Postgraduate students

  • 2 PhD students

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Publications

Clinical, psychological and demographic factors in a contemporary adult cohort with diabetic ketoacidosis and type 1 diabetes

Hare MJL, Deitch JM, Kang MJY, Bach LA

(2021), Intern Med J, 51(8), 1292-7

DOI: 10.1111/imj.14877

Psychosis induced by hypothyroidism mistaken for brief reactive psychosis

Gillies RD, Moseley G, Ng E, Bach L, Zhang J

(2021), AUST NZ J PSYCHIAT, 55(10), 1022

DOI: 10.1177/0004867421998764

Demographics and outcomes of inpatients with diabetic foot ulcers treated conservatively and surgically in a metropolitan hospital network

Rosi LM, Jones AS, Topliss DJ, Bach LA

(2021), DIABETES RES CLIN PR, 175, 108821

DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108821

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