Diabetes Center Annual Retreat

Our comprehensive 3-day agendas encompass the latest diabetes research in islet and stem cell biology; metabolism, obesity, and inflammation; and immunology and translation, bringing together collaborating UCSF research departments, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis at Chaminade Resort, an idyllic conference center in the redwoods of Santa Cruz, highlighted by a poster contest, team-building exercises at a morale boosting social hour, and keynote presentations from our most esteemed colleagues in research and health.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

2024 E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, Medical Director Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
2023 Stephen Gitelman, MD Director, Pediatric Diabetes, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital 
2019 Eric Verdin, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
2018 Jens Brüning, MD, Director Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne; Director, Policlinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital in Cologne, Germany
Anders M. Näär PhD, Professor Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
2017 Rudolph Leibel, PhD, Director Division of Molecular Genetics, Department of Pediatrics; Co-Director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University Medical Center
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, Chair Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
2016 Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, University of California San Francisco
2015 Laura Schmidt, PhD, Professor Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco
2013 Bruce Verchere, PhD, Head Diabetes Research Program at the Child & Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia