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Guillermo Umpierrez

Guillermo Umpierrez

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Guayaquil, Ecuador
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70 years
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Guillermo E. Umpierrez (born January 4, 1954; Guayaquil, Ecuador) (CDE, FACP, FACE) is a professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine where he specializes in endocrinology and metabolism and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital.

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From 1992 to 1997, Guillermo Umpierrez served as faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine. After a six year break from tenuring, he returned to Emory University in 2003 and founded the Emory Latino Diabetes Education Program with focus on the study of diabetes and metabolic disorders.

In 2010 Guillermo Umpierrez became a Director of the Grady Hospital Research Unit, and for the past seven years there, supervised clinical operations. During those years, he also served as principal investigator in many clinical trials which suggested how to treat diabetes in both critical and noncritical care settings. Due to his research, Professor Umpierrez was recognized by the American Diabetes Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, eventually becoming their member.

In 2017 Umpierrez was a mentor to Priyathama Vellanki who was studying ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes. Prior to becoming a mentor, Dr. Umpierrez had studied diabetes in African Americans and prevention of diabetic complications and management of hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis. He also serves as Council At-Large of the Endocrine Society, is a member of AACE Scientific Council and a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology.

In 2018 Umpierrez became a Guest Editor of the Diabetes Spectrum and an Editor of the BMJ Open Diabetes and Research Care.

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