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Dr. Xavier Pi-Sunyer is an endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Nutritional Obesity Research Center. He was born in Spain, but spent his formative years France, Mexico, and the US. He studied medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (Class of 1959) and took his internship/residency at the former St. Luke’s Hospital. He was introduced to endocrinology at an exchange program at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, England. Returning to the US, Pi-Sunyer pursued a degree in public health at Harvard University as well as a fellowship in endocrinology at Boston City Hospital. He was invited to return to St. Luke’s to help establish the Endocrine Division and to establish research laboratories for nutrition and metabolic research where the team carried out various grant-funded research projects, the most significant of which uncovered the hormone leptin. Dr. Pi-Sunyer left St. Luke’s Hospital Center in 2015 for the above mentioned positions, and as of 2017 was working on two large studies concerning diabetes prevention and heart disease prevention in diabetic patients.
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