Dr. Catherine Tuck is an Irving Assistant Professor of
Medicine at Columbia University and Associate Director of the Naomi Berrie
Diabetes Center at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Tuck received her undergraduate degree from Princeton
University, graduating magna cum laude and majoring in biology. She returned
to her hometown of Dallas, Texas and received her medical degree at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. After graduating, she
moved with her new husband to New York City, where she trained in internal
medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, serving as Chief
Resident from 1992-1993. She completed her fellowship in endocrinology
in 1995, studying with Drs. Lars Berglund and Henry Ginsberg in the Division
of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition.
Dr. Tuck is the recipient of the DeWitt Goodman Research
Award through the American Heart Association, which was given for her study
of the effects of hormone replacement in postmenopausal women with type
2 diabetes. She is also a principal investigator at the Columbia site for
the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) study, an
important new clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health,
which will begin enrolling patients in October, 2000. The purpose
of the ACCORD study will be to determine the best goals for blood sugar,
blood cholesterol and blood pressure numbers in people with type 2 diabetes.
Other research projects include those aimed at finding out how fatty meals
affect cholesterol and triglyceride levels in diabetic patients and an
exciting new project to test ways of using the Internet to help people
control their blood sugars.
Dr. Tuck has worked at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
since its inception nearly three years ago, caring for patients along with
other members of a dedicated diabetes team. She is a member of the American
Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association.
We regret to inform our readers that Dr. Tuck passed away in May, 2001.