geltrudemingrone
About: Geltrude Mingrone is one of the pioneers showing that bariatric surgery induces the remission of type 2 diabetes in people with obesity, even before any meaningful weight loss. She published the first randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy of lifestyle modification and best medical care with that of bariatric surgery in the New England Journal of Medicine and both the 5-year and 10-year follow-up in The Lancet. She demonstrated that the bypass of the duodenum and the jejunum reverses diabetes and insulin resistance and searched for their mediators.
Job: Senior Investigator