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Children's Medical Research Institute Appoints A. Gardner to Endowed Chair in Pediatric Diabetes

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 21:00 CDT

The Children's Medical Research Institute has appointed Andrew Gardner to the CMRI Hobbs-Recknagel Endowed Chair in Pediatric Diabetes. He will also be the director of the exercise physiology facility of the new CMRI Metabolic Research Center. He is one of four researchers to be recruited to the CMRI Childhood Diabetes Research Program. Gardner's research will focus on the roles of exercise and body composition on vascular and metabolic function in obese and diabetic children, as well as determining the amount of physical activity of children in a community setting.

My plans and emphasis as chair is to perform a line of research focusing on vascular dysfunction in children who are at risk, primarily obese or diabetic children or those suffering from metabolic syndrome. My focus will be to measure the vascular abnormalities in children who have these conditions, see how physical activities, exercise and diet are related to vascular function, and then see if they can be used to effectively treat vascular abnormalities, said Gardner.

Nationally, and in Oklahoma, the number of children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is growing at an alarming rate. About 15 percent of Oklahoma children have type 2 diabetes, although due to the lack of a statewide system for reporting diabetes in children, this percentage is likely to be underestimated.

Gardner's prior appointments include the associate professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and the University of Oklahoma, where he has been the professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science since 2002.

Source: Journal Record - Oklahoma City

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