Research Interests
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Obesity
- Kinase
- Zebrafish
- Adipose Tissue
- Ketone Bodies
- Endocrinology
- Hormones
- Monocarboxylate Transporter
- Biochemistry
- Lipids
- Molecular Genetics
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments |
Internal Medicine - Assistant Professor
Biochemistry - Adjunct Assistant Professor
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| Academic Divisions |
Endocrinology and Metabolism
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| Board Certification |
American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism)
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Academic Office Locations
| Academic Office Phone Number |
Academic Office Address |
| (801) 585-0730 |
George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
15 N 2030 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 |
Academic Bio
Dr. Schlegel was a trainee in the Medical Scientist Training Program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he received his M.D. and Ph.D. He was an intern and resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and was a Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a clinical fellow in the Diabetes, Endocrine, and Metabolism Training Program at the University of California San Francisco, where he was subsequently a post-doctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor Didier Y.R. Stainier, Ph.D., in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. It was there that he established a zebrafish molecular genetic system for studying lipid metabolism.
In 2010, Dr. Schlegel was recruited to the University of Utah as an investigator in the Molecular Medicine Program and as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry. He hosts graduate students in his lab through the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate programs. His laboratory uses model organisms (zebrafish and mice) to identify and characterize new genes that participate in lipid metabolism. The long-term goal of this work is to identify novel therapeutic targets for treating obesity, type 2 diabetes, and lipid disorders.
Dr. Schlegel is heavily involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education, lecturing second year medical students on lipid disorders and endocrine hypertension; delivering noon conferences to the Internal Medicine house staff on the same topics; serving as a General Medicine ward attending physician (annual fortnight) at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; performing one month annualy of in-patient Endocrinology consultations; and staffing a weekly fellows' clinic at the Utah Diabetes and Endocrinology Center and a General Endocrinology clinic at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is a regular discussant at Internal Medicine resident conferences.
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