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Jeffrey Zigman, MD, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
jeffrey.zigman@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.
Biography
Dr. Zigman grew up in New Jersey and performed undergraduate studies at Cornell University. He obtained a dual MD-PhD degree from the University of Chicago, and remained in Chicago to complete an Internal Medicine residency. Dr. Zigman next moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he completed a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. It was in Boston, while working under the mentorship of Drs. Joel Elmquist and Jeffrey Garber, where Dr. Zigman’s research and clinical interests in the hormone ghrelin and thyroid nodular disease, respectively, first arose. Dr. Zigman is currently an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he is affiliated with the Division of Hypothalamic Research and the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism. He holds a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Psychiatry and also is affiliated with the Integrative Biology Graduate Program. His clinic primarily focuses on the treatment of individuals with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. Dr. Zigman’s research is geared primarily toward the study of the peptide hormone ghrelin and its effects on eating behaviors and mood.
Education
| Fellowship | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Endocrinology & Metabolism (2003) |
| Internship/Residency | University of Chicago Hospitals, Internal Medicine (2000) |
| Medical School | University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (1997) |
Research Interests
Publications
Chuang JC, Sakata I, Kohno D, Perello M, Osborne-Lawrence S, Repa JJ, Zigman JM, Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.), 2011 Sep; 25 (9):1600-11
Chuang JC, Perello M, Sakata I, Osborne-Lawrence S, Savitt JM, Lutter M, Zigman JM, The Journal of clinical investigation, 2011 Jul; 121 (7):2684-92
Zhao TJ, Sakata I, Li RL, Liang G, Richardson JA, Brown MS, Goldstein JL, Zigman JM, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010 Sep; 107 (36):15868-73
Mario Perello, Ichiro Sakata, Shari Birnbaum, Jen-Chieh Chuang, Sherri Osborne-Lawrence,Sherry A. Rovinsky, Jakub Woloszyn, Masashi Yanagisawa, Michael Lutter, and Jeffrey M. Zigman , Biological Psychiatry , 2010; (67):880-886
Sakata I*, Yang J*, Lee CE, Osborne-Lawrence S, Rovinsky SA, Elmquist JK, Zigman JM , AJP Endo Metab , 2009; (297):E134-E141
Zigman JM, Elmquist JK , PNAS , August 2006; (103):12961-12962
Gautron L, Sakata I, Udit S, Zigman JM, Wood JN, Elmquist JK, The Journal of comparative neurology, 2011 Oct; 519 (15):3085-101
Perello M, Scott MM, Sakata I, Lee CE, Chuang JC, Osborne-Lawrence S, Rovinsky SA, Elmquist JK, Zigman JM, The Journal of comparative neurology, 2011 Jun;
Cravo RM, Margatho LO, Osborne-Lawrence S, Donato J, Atkin S, Bookout AL, Rovinsky S, Frazão R, Lee CE, Gautron L, Zigman JM, Elias CF, Neuroscience, 2011 Jan; 173:37-56
Donato J, Cravo RM, Frazão R, Gautron L, Scott MM, Lachey J, Castro IA, Margatho LO, Lee S, Lee C, Richardson JA, Friedman J, Chua S, Coppari R, Zigman JM, Elmquist JK, Elias CF, The Journal of clinical investigation, 2011 Jan; 121 (1):355-68
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Honors/Awards
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2011)
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2010)
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2006)
Cornell University (1989)
The University of Chicago (1989)