Philip E. Cryer, MD: Hypoglycemia in the Absence of Diabetes

Dr. Cryer explains how hypoglycemia shows up in the non-diabetic population, including the fact that people with non-diabetic hypoglycemia often show hypoglycemic symptons at lower plasma glucose concentrations than those without. He also explains the most common causes of hypoglycemia in this population.

Philip E. Cryer, MD is a graduate of Northwestern University and its medical school with training in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital and in endocrinology and metabolism at Washington University. Dr. Cryer has been a member of the faculty since 1971. He served as program director of the General Clinical Research Center from 1978 to 2006 and as Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism from 1985 through 2002. He has been the Irene E. and Michael M. Karl Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Medicine since 1995. A past president of the American Diabetes Association and a former editor of its leading journal, Diabetes, Dr. Cryer’s research has been recognized by the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement of the American Diabetes Association, the Claude Bernard Medal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health.