Nate Heintzman
Assistant Professor Medicine
Email nheintzman@ucsd.edu Phone 858.534.6920 URL http://dbmi.ucsd.edu/confluence/display/BMI/Heintzman
Nate Heintzman is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics in UC San Diego’s Department of Medicine, where he directs the Diabetes Management Integrative Technology Research Initiative (DMITRI) and participates in the Division’s ongoing iDASH program (Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and Sharing). A long-time diabetes advocate, Heintzman combines his research experience in genomics and device technologies to explore quantitative aspects of glycemic control and means by which technology and other interventions can improve health outcomes in the diabetes community. In 2008, Heintzman was named a prestigious UC Discovery Fellow with the San Diego division of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and his research in recent years has been published in Nature. In addition to his academic contributions, Heintzman serves as Chair of the Board for Insulindependence, a San Diego-based national non-profit organization that he co-founded to provide fitness and recreation programs for people with diabetes. Heintzman received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from UCSD and his BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
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