Highlighted Researcher: Rodolfo Galindo

What is your professional background? 
After finishing medical school at the University of Havana, I served as a General Physician during relief efforts in Pakistan after a devastating earthquake. After that, I continued my international medical service as an Urgent/Emergency Care Physician in a Community Health Center in the Andes Mountains of Venezuela.

I continued my training and completed my Internal Medicine training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC, and my Endocrinology fellowship at North Shore University Hospital, also in New York. After finishing my fellowship, I was recruited as a faculty member for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where I was the Director of the Hospital Diabetes Service.

In what division do you work, and who is your mentor? 
After moving from Mount Sinai in NYC, I joined the Division of Endocrinology at Emory to work with my mentor, Dr. Guillermo Umpierrez. Dr. Umpierrez has served as my mentor since I was a fellow, as part of a program from The Endocrine Society.

Briefly describe your research. Why is it important? 
We are passionate about diabetes and focus our clinical research program on the management of diabetes in the hospital and in patients with renal failure or post-transplantation diabetes.

I recently became very interested in patients with uncontrolled diabetes, and severe hyperglycemia (HbA1c >9%). The current standard-of-care for these patients is insulin therapy, with up to 4-5 injections per day. Unfortunately, these very complex regimens are associated with high risk of hypoglycemia, weight gain, and poor compliance. I was just awarded a grant to conduct a multi-center trial using a simpler and less burdensome treatment strategy, with a once daily injection of IDegLira. This agent is a fixed dual combination of a novel basal insulin (deluglec) and a glucagon-like peptide agonist (liraglutide). We hypothesize that using this simpler approach, will result in similar glycemic control but less hypoglycemia, less weight gain, and better compliance, compared to the current standard-of-care.

What do you like most about Emory? 
Emory is a great institution, with a strong supportive program for junior faculty, and it’s located in Atlanta – making it the perfect opportunity.

What is your favorite movie or TV show? 
We are bilinguals (English-Spanish) in our house. I love Aqui no hay quien viva, from TVE-Spain – meaning: “There is no one who can leave here.” You may not even need to understand Spanish to be laughing all day.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy dancing, exercising, and music, or anything if my family is with me.

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