Inauguration lecture

  Epidemic of Diabetes: Challenges and opportunities for epidemiologists

Andrzej Krolewski, Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center, Section on Genetics and Epidemiology, Boston, USA

Dr.Andrzej Krolewski received his medical education at the Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland. After coming to the U.S. and completing fellowships in epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and molecular human genetics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he established a laboratory of Genetics and Epidemiology at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

Capitalizing on his access to the 16,000 patient population of the Joslin Clinic, he developed research on the epidemiology and genetics of diabetes and its late complications. He has published over 200 papers in this area. His current research focuses on three topics: 1. Genetics and epidemiology of diabetes 2. Epidemiology and genetics of diabetic kidney complications 3. Application of genetic, genomic and proteomic methods to epidemiological studies For the last 20 years Dr. Krolewski’s laboratory has been a center for training of many post-doctoral fellows who use epidemiologic and genetic methods to study the etiology of diabetes and its complications. He pioneered this field by teaching courses on this topic for 15 years at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently Dr. Krolewski is Senior Investigator and Head of laboratory on Genetic and Epidemiology at the Joslin Diabetes Center and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.