Assistant Professor
PennState Health Children's Hospital
Dr. Neha Patel, DO is an assistant professor at the PennState Children's Hospital in Hershey. She is known for her research in type 1 diabetes, specifically technologies. Before coming to Penn State in 2017, she was involved in the initial development and clinical trials of the artificial pancreas while at Yale. She personally knows the difficulties and obstacles of managing this chronic disorder and has come to realize that research provides a path by which optimization of care can be achieved. Based on her experiences, she wishes to commit herself to becoming a physician-scientist seeking to improve diabetes care, focused on the application of technologies. One of her prior clinical trials focused on mitigating hypoglycemia during exercise on a closed-loop system, a topic on which she has presented internationally. She also has studied adjunctive therapies in type 1 diabetes, specifically sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors. Her current study looks at the application of continuous glucose monitors in newborns with hypoglycemia.
Dr. Patel is the principal investigator at Penn State for the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange. She has worked on various trials including TrialNet (Pathway to Prevention study - a multi-center research study dedicated to identify type 1 diabetes antibodies in people with high genetic risk) and the surveillance of COVID-19 in patients with type 1 diabetes.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021
10:05 AM – 10:35 AM CDT