What are your job duties with the Diabetes and Obesity Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research?
Once again – not there currently. And once again, by no means was doing anything of anything of *real* significance. I was there for, once again, a placement as part of my degree (but this was with my second degree/ med degree). But it was a good introduction into clinical research into obesity and I got to meet and talk to a lot of very interesting researchers. I was in the Clinical Research Unit and ‘attached’ to the research teams that used the area (mostly the Campbell team). It is a small purpose built facility run by nurses and clinicians set up to deal with patients enrolled in studies. So it is where participants get Resting Metabolic Rate tests (via Indirect Calorimetry), Muscle and fat biopsies (performed under sterile surgical conditions), Body composition Analysis (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis), Insulin Clamp Studies (IV Glucose Tolerance Tests), hormone tests (OGTTs, IV Insulin Tolerance Tests, GH and Cortisol stimulation tests), and a variety of other weird and wonder
