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In this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about advances in the work with beta cells.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about advances in the work on stem cell-derived beta cells.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about the results of the Viactye trial as shared at a recent opinion leaders meeting.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about the remaining challenges in the work with stem cell-derived beta cells.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about the move beyond academic labs to researchers in other arenas in the study of stem cell technology.

In part 5 of this Exclusive Interview, Jon Odorico talks with Diabetes in Control during the ADA 2018 convention in Orlando about the work to resolve some of the challenges in stem cell-derived beta cell research.

George A. Bray, M.D., MACP, MACE is a Boyd Professor Emeritus at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans.  After graduating from Brown University summa cum laude in 1953, Bray entered Harvard Medical School graduating magna cum laude in 1957. His post-doctoral training included an internship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, a fellowship at the NIH, residency at the Strong-Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, a fellowship at the National Institute for Medical Research in London and at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.   In 1970, he became Director of the Clinical Research Center at the Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and organized of the First Fogarty International Center Conference on Obesity at NIH in 1973. Bray also Chaired the Second International Congress on Obesity in Washington DC in 1977. In 1989 he became the first Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, a post he held until 1999. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Master of the American College of Endocrinology and Master of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Bray founded the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in 1982 (now The Obesity Society), and he was the founding editor of its journal, Obesity Research, as well as co-founder of the International Journal of Obesity and the first editor of Endocrine Practice, the official journal of the American College of Endocrinologists.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, George Bray talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about viewing obesity as a chronic disease process and the future of treatment.

In this Exclusive Interview, George Bray talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the disease process of obesity.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, George Bray talks with Diabetes in Control Medical Editor Joy Pape about the primary messages from the World Obesity Federation position statements.