Episode 29: World Diabetes Day 2023

For This year’s Special Edition Podcast for World Diabetes Day (Episode 29), Dr. Rita Kalyani welcomes Dr. Stanley Chen Cardenas to our podcast. Dr. Chen Cardenas is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was born in Panama, obtained his medical degree at the University of Panama, where he became interested in endocrinology and basic-translational research. This led him to migrate to the United States. He initially worked in an immunology lab in Panama, then at the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School where he studied microRNAs as biomarkers o beta cell destruction in type 1 DM. He continued his medical training in Baltimore at Sinai Hospital where he served as a Chief resident, followed by his endocrinology fellowship a Johns Hopkins University. While in residency and fellowship he worked on a murine model of obstructive sleep apnea studying how intermittent hypoxia and calcium channels impact glucose metabolism. He is currently interest is in adrenal gland disorders.  Relevant for this podcast, as an endocrinologist he spent 2 years working in Latin America, more specifically in Panama, both in the public and private healthcare system. He recently published a book Chapter on Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Latin America.