R. Paul Robertson is an American endocrinologist and former president and scientific director of the

Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute The Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) is a private non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in the northwest United States, located in Seattle, Washington. Founded to investigate heart surgery, cancer, and endocrine dise ...

(PNDRI). He is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Robertson was the 2009 president, Medicine & Science of the Volunteer Board for the

American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a United States-based nonprofit that seeks to educate the public about diabetes and to help those affected by it through funding research to manage, cure and prevent diabetes (including type 1 diabetes, ...

. His research interests focus on glucose regulation of pancreatic islet gene expression and the abnormal consequences on gene expression caused by glucose toxicity. He is also involved in metabolic studies of type 1 diabetic patients who have successfully received pancreas and pancreatic islet transplantation (see Edmonton Protocol). He was elected to be the editor-in-chief for the ''

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ''The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of endocrinology and metabolism. The current editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a public ...

'' (JCEM) of the

Endocrine Society The Endocrine Society is a professional, international medical organization in the field of endocrinology and metabolism, founded in 1916 as The Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. The official name of the organization was changed ...

(United States) beginning January 2015.

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R. Paul Robertson PNDRI bio page

Swedish Medical Center bio page
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