Name: Fernando Ovalle

Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Birmingham, USA

Biography

Fernando Ovalle, MD, FACE, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. In addition to maintaining a large and busy clinical practice, he serves as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic, and Director of Diabetes and Glycemic Control Programs at UAB Hospital. Also, he is the Director of the Diabetes & Endocrine Clinical Research Unit, and the Program Director for the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at UAB. His research interests Clinical diabetes, Therapy of diabetes, Classification of diabetes, High insulin requirements, Severe insulin resistance, Lipodystrophy in diabetes, Autoimmune diabetes, Monogenic diabetes.