TGH:City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Science in Medicine: Innovative therapies from the gut: transforming the treatment of metabolic and gastrointestinal disorders

Daniel J. Drucker, MD

Director, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre
University of Toronto

Science in Medicine: Innovative therapies from the gut: transforming the treatment of metabolic and gastrointestinal disorders

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

1. Recognize the role of the gut endocrine system in the control of energy ingestion and assimilation,
2. Identify key gut hormones that are targets for drug development;
3. Distinguish between different existing and emerging peptide-based therapies for treatment of metabolic disorders, and
4. Identify subsets of patients that may be candidates for treatment with new gut-hormone-derived therapies.

Presented by videoconference from Toronto General Hospital, Medical Education, ENG 025/026 to:

• Baycrest – Telehealth Boardroom
• Bridgepoint – Room 834
• Mount Sinai – Main Auditorium, 18th Floor
• St. Michael’s – Paul Marshall Lecture Theatre
• Sunnybrook – McLaughlin Lecture Theatre, EG 61
• Toronto Rehab-UC – Room 220
• Toronto Western – Main Auditorium, 2W 401
• Trillium – Auditorium A
• West Park – R3 Sunroom
• Women’s College – Cummings Auditorium

“City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”

We regret that a webcast will not be available for this event.