Dr. Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Lecturer in Epidemiology in the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) has been invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Inter-Institute Endocrinology Grand Rounds in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday December 11, 2009. 

Dr. Tulloch-Reid’s presentation entitled “The Consequences of Obesity in Jamaican Youth” will focus on his research work in Jamaica. The presentation will include the findings of the first study to document the presence of type 2 diabetes in Caribbean Youth, sponsored by The University of the West Indies New Initiative Fund and the Caribbean Health Research Council, for which he was Principal Investigator.
 
Dr. Tulloch-Reid’s visit to the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland is being sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. He will be hosted by Dr. Anne Sumner of the Clinical Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Dr. Tulloch-Reid was trained in Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge and the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences. He is also certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism. Dr. Tulloch-Reid joined the TMRI as Lecturer in 2003 and currently serves as the Coordinator for the MSc Epidemiology Programme.

The NIH, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research in the United States. Composed of 27 Institutes and Centres in the United States, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world. With the headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH has more than 18,000 employees on the main campus and at satellite sites across the country. The NIH annually invests over US $28 billion in medical research. About 10% of the NIH's budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland