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Current Fellows
Martha Douglas-Escobar, M.D.
Fellow
College
Liceo Benalcazar, Cali, Colombia
Medical School
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Residency
Universidad del Valle, Colombia 1989 -1991
University of California San Francisco 2003-2006
Fellowship
Neonatology at Gainesville UFL, 2006-2009
Fellowship in Clinical Nutrition, University of Chile, Chile 1997-1998
Research Interests
- Early nutritional intervention to prevent disease
- Stem cell therapy
Active Research Projects
- Early nutritional intervention to prevent Diabetes Type 1
- Arg-Glu dipeptide as treatment for oxygen induced retinopathy
- Stem cell migration
Publications over the last five years
- Podium presentation: Role of the Gastrointestinal Tract in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes the UFL experience. 3-6 Aug 2007 12th EASD/JDRF Oxford Workshop at Keble College, Oxford
- Neu, J., Douglas-Escobar, M., Lopez, M. Microbes and the Developing Gastrointestinal Tract Nutr Clin Pract. 2007; 22:174-182.
- Neu J, Hauser N, Douglas-Escobar M. Postnatal nutrition and adult health programming. Seminars in Fetal Neonatal Med. 2006 Dec 4
- Podium presentation: Effects of Arginine-Glutamine Dipeptide on a Mouse Model of Oxygen Induced Retinopathy (Abstract #: 753864) May 5-7 2007 Toronto-Canada Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting
