Diabetes Spectrum 18:87, 2005
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2005
Ann Albright, PhD, RD, has an academic appointment in the Institute for
Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, where she
serves as chief of the California Diabetes Program for the California
Department of Health Services. She has recently returned from a leave of
absence from her position in the California Diabetes Program during which she
served as the senior health policy fellow in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon
General.
Dr. Albright received her doctoral degree in exercise physiology from Ohio
State University in Columbus. She completed a National Institutes of Health
postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Nutrition at the University of
California, Davis, and a clinical internship in nutrition at the University of
California, San Francisco.
She has conducted research investigations in body composition, diabetic
nephropathy and exercise, the role of tissue glycosylation in diabetes
complications, glucose transporter mRNA in adipose tissue and muscle, and the
feasibility of enhanced care in a population of Medicaid recipients with type
2 diabetes. She is a frequent lecturer on diabetes and has published in
several areas related to diabetes. She is an associate editor of Diabetes
Spectrum.
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