Peter A. Gottlieb, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Barbara Davis Center
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Peter Gottlieb was born in Havana, Cuba, but at age two moved to New Jersey, where he grew up. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania he attended UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School from which he graduated in 1984. Dr. Gottlieb completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he also continued his fellowship training in endocrinology and metabolism.

In 1990, after completing his fellowship, he moved to the Weizmann Institute in Israel to do post-doctoral training in T cell immunology. After surviving Gulf War I, he returned to UMass and joined the staff as Clinical Director of Diabetes. He subsequently joined the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in 1995, where he is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and the Director of the Translational Research Unit at the Barbara Davis Center.

Dr. Gottlieb has authored, co-authored and collaborated on more than 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as several book chapters and served as section editor for several journal editions. His research areas of interest include the immunology of type 1 diabetes, intervention trials to prevent or reverse type 1 diabetes, islet transplantation and the genetics of autoimmune disease. He had led several multi-center trials in new onset type 1 diabetes and is an active member of the Steering Committee for Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet.

Dr. Peter Gottlieb will be the featured speaker at the Breakthrough T1D 18th Annual Spring Research Briefing and Reception on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at Boston Marriott Newton at 6 p.m. To register, please visit bit.ly/JDRFSpringResearchBriefing2017 or contact Charlie Iacono at ciacono@BreakthroughT1D.org or 781-431-0700 with questions or for more information. You will receive an email the week of the event with final details for the evening.