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Director of the laboratory, Associate Professor in the Department of Health & Human Physiology, and member of the Obesity Research & Education Initiative (OREI), the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center (FOEDRC), the Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center (ACRC) and the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute (PBI) at the University of Iowa