Gregory Brent, MD
Professor of Medicine and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Senior Executive Academic Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine. He is past Chair of the Department of Medicine at VA Greater Los Angeles and past Chief of the UCLA Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Dr. Brent received his clinical endocrinology training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and completed a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. David Moore. His laboratory studies the mechanisms of thyroid hormone action in metabolic regulation and neural differentiation, as well as iodine transport in hormone-dependent cancers. He has been continuously funded since 1989 by grants from NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. He was recently selected as a VA Senior Clinician Scientist Investigator. His areas of clinical research include hypothyroidism and thyroid diseases in pregnancy and in chronic kidney disease patients. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and Association of American Physicians (AAP). He is past chair of the National Institutes of Health, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology Study Section and the Endocrine Merit Review Board for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been recognized by the UCLA Excellence in Education Award, inducted as a faculty member into UCLA Alpha Omega Alpha Society, and received four pre-clinical curriculum UCLA medical student Golden Apple Awards. He is past Secretary/Chief Operating Officer and past President of the American Thyroid Association. He has been recognized with multiple research, mentoring and service awards from the American Thyroid Association and the Endocrine Society.
Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography.