Henry Burch, M.D.

Program Director: Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases

Clinical studies on the effects of lifestyle and health policy changes on type 2 diabetes; Clinical and laboratory studies on disorders of the thyroid

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Responsibilities & Activities

As director of healthy behaviors and policy effects on type 2 diabetes, my portfolio includes research involving behavioral strategies to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes in adults. Diabetes research in this program may include observational studies, efficacy and effectiveness trials, natural experiment evaluation, pragmatic trials, and implementation science at the patient, family, healthcare system, healthcare provider, or community level. This program includes grants to evaluate changes in health care systems and policies related to improving diabetes outcomes. In addition, I serve as director of thyroid research at the NIDDK. Thyroid research in this program may include non-neoplastic clinical, genetic, and mechanistic studies dealing with disorders of the thyroid.

Research Programs

Clinical Research in Type 2 Diabetes
Studies in humans aimed at the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes and the mechanistic aspects of its etiology.

Diabetes: Treatment, Prevention, & Complications
Basic and clinical studies aimed at addressing the prevention, treatment, and pathophysiology of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Select Experience

Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General, Walter Reed Naitonal Military Medical Center, Washington, D.C., 2011-2016

Chief, Endocinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 2000-2011