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Prof. Stephen C. Woods
Stephen C. Woods
Professor Stephen Woods was born in Pasadena, California, in 1942. He received Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Physiology and Biophysics as well as in Experimental Psychology from the University of Washington in 1970, specializing in the endocrinology and neurobiology of ingestive behavior. After three years on the faculty of Columbia University, he returned to the University of Washington where he became Professor of Psychology and of Medicine in 1978. At the University of Washington he was also Chair of the Department of Psychology and Vice Provost for Research. In 1998 he became Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Obesity Research Center at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He is also the Co-Director of the Cincinnati Mouse Diabetes Phenotyping Center, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Professor Woods's research focuses on the endocrinology and neurobiology of the controls over appetite and food intake, investigating these phenomena using techniques ranging from the molecular, to the physiological, to animal models of ingestive behavior, to clinical applications. He has authored over 300 scholarly publications, and he received a distinguished MERIT Award for his research on obesity from the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Society.
Professor Woods has been a member of several committees and review panels of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He has served as President of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) and the International Congress of the Physiology of Food and Fluid Intake (ICPFFI), and he was on the Executive Board of the North American Society for the Study of Obesity. Dr. Woods is Editor-in-Chief of Physiology and Behavior, the official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. He is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physiology and Diabetes.
Professor Woods's research specializes in the endocrinology and neurobiology of the controls over appetite and food intake, and he and Professor Seeley share a large lab researching these phenomena using techniques ranging from the molecular, to the physiological, to animal models of ingestive behavior, to clinical applications. Woods's current research has several focuses. One involves the mechanisms through which the brain receives information regarding how fat or thin the body is; that is, his lab has been identifying the signals that convey body fat content to the brain, and he was a pioneer in suggesting that large circulating hormones such as insulin and leptin are able to penetrate into the brain from the blood and influence behavior. Another focus of his research is the interaction of different kinds of signals that influence food intake within the brain. For example, his group has found that when an individual loses weight, the reduced "fat" signal in the brain renders an individual less sensitive to signals from the stomach and intestine during a meal. The result is that they tend to eat larger meals and regain their lost weight. In other words, Woods's research has been identifying the mechanisms underlying the so-called "set point" of body weight.
The incidence of obesity in our society is dangerously high and continuing to increase. Because of this, understanding the signals that control body fat, and how they interact with other signals that control how much food is eaten, is fundamental to the development of new therapeutic approaches. Taking advantage of brain systems that control food intake as potential therapeutic avenues is a novel and creative approach that forms the basis for considerable current research effort around the world, and the research of Drs. Woods is at the forefront of this effort. By understanding the biology of the systems that make it difficult to lose weight, we should be able to use these same systems to produce effective weight loss that would be sustainable and result in decreased risk for heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
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List of presentations from this healthcare provider available on CMEonDiabetes :
 Neural Control of Energy Balance
english - 2005-04-14 - 32 minutes
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