The Changing Climate of Diabetic Kidney Disease—Environmental Triggers and Vulnerabilities
Sunday, June 23, at 8:00 a.m. ET
Room W206
Orange County Convention Center
The Exposome Imperative—Unlocking the Full Spectrum of Precision Medicine to Prevent Diabetic Kidney Disease
Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair,
Columbia University
What is your presentation about?
This presentation will discuss advances in exposomics methodologies and in the growing understanding of the connection between environmental exposures for diabetes and kidney disease. Summary data from diverse populations will be presented including the Strong Heart Study, a study in Indigenous communities in the Southwest and the Great Plains, and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a study in urban and suburban settings across the U.S. Ongoing efforts in exposure assessment and the exposome to study the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of uncertain origin in agricultural communities will be presented.
How do you hope your presentation will impact diabetes research or care?
This presentation will present new cutting-edge methodology that can be incorporated in new research efforts. This body of research is contributing to recognizing an additional set of preventable risk factors that can contribute to the prevention and control of diabetes as well as kidney disease.
How did you become involved with this area of diabetes research or care?
I am an epidemiologist and preventive medicine specialist who became interested in environmental exposures early in my career.