Background
Kitabchi, Abbas Eqbal was born on August 28, 1933 in Tehran, Iran.
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Abbas Eqbal Kitabchi
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Bachelor of Science, Cornell College, 1954; Master of Science, U. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences, U. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 1958; postgraduate, U. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 1958-1960; Doctor of Medicine, U. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 1965.
Career
Graduate assistant, research fellow department physiology, U. Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, 1954-1956;
research associate, Oklahoma Medical Research Institute, Oklahoma City, 1960-1961;
biochemist, Oklahoma Medical Research Institute, Oklahoma City, 1961-1965;
intern, Veterans Administration Hospital. and University Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, 1965-1966;
instructor, senior fellow endocrinology department medicine, U. Washington, Seattle, 1966-1968;
attending staff, U. Tennessee Hospitals, Memphis, since 1968;
assistant professor medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1968-1971;
associate professor medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1971-1973;
professor medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1973;
associate professor biochemistry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1968-1972;
professor biochemistry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1972;
chief division endocrinology and metabolism, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1973;
program director Clinical Research Center, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1973-1992. Senior investigator biochemistry section Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OklahomaCity, 1965-1966. Associate chief of staff for research and education VA Medical Center, Memphis, 1968-1973, chief laboratories endocrinology and metabolism, 1968-1975, associate chief section metabolism, medical service, 1969-1975.
Chief Endocrine and Diabetic Clinics, Regional Medical Center, Memphis, since 1973. Ad hoc reviewer National Science Foundation Research Grants, since 1974, General Clinical Research Center, since 1976. Program director National Institutes of Health Training Grant in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, 1978-1981.
Vice president, board directors National Pituitary Foundation, 1980-1990. Member steering committee Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, National Institute Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 1982-1990, member Studies. and methods committee, 1982-1985, member treatment committee, 1985-1990, member diabetes prevention program, since 1992, member intervention committee, since 1992, member ancillary study committee, since 1994. Board directors National Association Clinical Research Center Program Dirs., 1983-1984.
Member ad hoc committee biomedical science study section National Institutes of Health Fogarty Internat.Fellowships, 1986-1987. Others; consultant in endocrinology and attending physician U. Tennessee Bowld Hospital, Memphis, since 1983, VA Medical Center, Memphis,1983-, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, since 1983, Methodist Hospital, Memphis, since 1983, Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital, Memphis, since 1983.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Society Clinical Endocrinologists, American Federation for Clin.Rsch., Association American Physicians, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Institute Nutrition, American Diabetes Association (national research committee 1978-1981), Endocrine Society, Control Society for Clinical Research (sub-specialty chairman 1975), Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (sub-specialty chairman 1974, 98), Tennessee Diabetes Prevention andControl Program, Tennessee Diabetes Association (president 1973-1974, 92), Memphis and Mid-South Medical Society, Memphis Academy Internal Medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
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4 children.
