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Richard D. Bebermeyer, D.D.S., M.B.A.
Dr. Richard Bebermeyer teaches clinical general dentistry to advanced students at the UT Dental Branch at Houston. As professor and vice-chair of the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials at the Dental Branch, Dr. Bebermeyer's teaching and research interests include prevention and health promotion, evidence-based dentistry and practice management.
Dr. Bebermeyer earned his dental degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He also earned his Master's in Business Administration, specializing in health care administration, from Southern Illinois University. While Dr. Bebermeyer has participated in a number of national and international dental organizations, his most recent interest is teaching evidence-based dentistry to colleagues in developing nations.
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Evelyn C.Y. Chan, M.D., M.S.
Dr. Evelyn Chan is a practicing internist and biomedical ethicist. As an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and as director of bioethics for the Department of Medicine at the UT-Houston Medical School, Dr. Chan balances a clinical practice with teaching and research concerning primary care and ethical issues.
Her research interests include physician-patient communication, informed consent, new media and preventive health care. Dr. Chan helps patients and health-care providers sort through the choices available to them through her service on the Hermann Hospital Ethics Committee, the UT-Committee for the Protection for Human Subjects and the Texas State Prostate Cancer Advisory Committee.
On the national level, Dr. Chan serves as a member of Project JOLT (Joining Organizations with Leading Technologies), an initiative led by the National Cancer Institute to link grass-roots patient organizations and leading technology companies with federal efforts using the new media to improve health-care promotion and communication.
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Carlos A. Moreno, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Family medicine is Dr. Carlos A. Moreno's passion. As professor and chairman of the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at UT-Houston Medical School, Dr. Moreno cares for patients while sharing his knowledge with medical students and residents.
Dr. Moreno earned his medical degree at Harvard. He also has a Master of Science in Public Health degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. One of many leadership roles he holds is as a member of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Training Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry. As Vice President of Community Programs and Education Outreach at UT-Houston, he leads the university's efforts to promote diversity on campus. Dr. Moreno is chief of family practice at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in Houston.
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Jon R. Wiener, PhD
Jon R. Wiener, PhD has been the assistant dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) since 1999 and assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Therapeutics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1994.
He received a BS and MS in microbiology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a PhD in microbiology from the University of Virginia. After a post-doctoral fellowship in microbiology at Duke University, in 1988 he joined the faculty of Duke University in the Department of Surgery.
His research focuses on aberrant tyrosine kinase signaling and protease secretion in human ovarian cancer, with other interests being infectious virology, and the education and training of biomedical scientists.
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Eating healthy
reverses metabolic syndrome
Dr. Tasnime Akbaraly of University College London and her colleagues were interested if healthy eating could actually turn-the-tide and reverse metabolic syndrome, which is having 3 or more of the following risk factors: excess abdominal fat; high triglycerides, hypertension, low levels of HDL the “good” cholesterol, or type 2 diabetes. Having metabolic syndrome doubles a persons’ risk of heart disease and greatly increases the odds of developing type 2 diabetes.
The researchers studied 339 British civil servants with metabolic syndrome, and how closely the adhered to the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) to see if it could help reverse metabolic syndrome. The AHEI is a set of published nutritional guidelines by the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002 that emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables and decreased red meat consumption.
Five years into the study, nearly 50% no longer had metabolic syndrome. People who followed the AHEI guidelines the closest were nearly twice as likely to have reversed their metabolic syndrome. The results of the study were published in Diabetes Care, online July 29, 2010.
Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, an expert on diet and heart health from Tufts University in Boston who was not involved in the study said, "It's not about focusing on individual components of the diet, it's really the whole package, and that becomes important because it means that if one of the components of a healthy diet is to eat more fruits and vegetables, just buying a pill saying that there's a concentrated extract of fruits and vegetables is probably not what's going to help you."
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