Richard E. Pratley MD
Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead, AdventHealth Translational Research Institute, Orlando, Florida; Medical Director, AdventHealth Diabetes Institute, Orlando, Florida; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MarylandDr. Richard Pratley, an internationally recognized expert in diabetes, is Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead at the AdventHealth Translational Research Institute and Medical Director of the AdventHealth Diabetes Institute in Orlando, as well as Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Pratley is a principal investigator for both NIH- and pharmaceutical company–sponsored trials in diabetes and obesity. His current research interests include the prevention of diabetes, improving the care of older individuals with diabetes, developing new drugs to treat and prevent diabetes and its complications, understanding the role of the fat cell in increasing the risk for diabetes and heart disease, and investigating extracellular vesicles in inter-cellular and inter-organ cross-talk. He presents his research regularly at national and international meetings and has written over 400 peer-reviewed articles. He is a member of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of high-impact journals, including Diabetes Care, The Lancet Diabetes &Endocrinology, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.
Disclosures
- Speaker fees: Eli Lilly; Novo Nordisk
- Consulting fees: AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Bayer AG; Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals; Boehringer Ingelheim; Corcept Therapeutics; Eli Lilly; Endogenex; Gasherbrum Bio; Genprex; Getz Pharma; Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co; Intas Pharmaceuticals; Lexicon Pharmaceuticals; Lilly USA; Novo Nordisk; Pfizer; Regeneron; Rivus Pharmaceuticals, Scholar Rock; Sun Pharmaceutical Industries
- Grants: Biomea Fusion; Carmot Therapeutics; Dompé; Endogenex; Fractyl Health; Eli Lilly; Novo Nordisk; Sanofi
- Stock options: Altanine, Inc
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Dapagliflozin Added to Liraglutide and Insulin Improves Glycemia and Weight Loss in Type 1 Diabetes
- Melanocortin-4 Receptor Agonist Useful in Proopiomelanocortin Deficiency
- Association Among Sleep Duration, Insulin Sensitivity, and β-Cell Function
- Zinc Supplementation Improves Glucose Handling in Prediabetes
- β-Cell Dedifferentiation in Type 2 Diabetes
- Shifting Sands: Preventing CVD in Type 2 Diabetes
- Basal-Bolus vs Premixed Insulin in Hospitalized Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
- Empagliflozin as Adjunct to Metformin and Sulfonylurea
- Risk Factors for Albuminuria and Decrease in Glomerular Filtration Rate in Type 2 Diabetes
- Effect of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia on Sleep in Type 2 Diabetes