What bariatric surgery tells us about the role of the gut in metabolism | Professor Randy Seeley

This keynote was filmed at Metabolism Day on June 14, 2022 at the University of Copenhagen. Metabolism Day is a conference about energy control and metabolism, and is hosted by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR). For more information please visit: http://cbmr.ku.dk Randy Seeley is the Henry K. Ransom Endowed Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He also serves as the director of the NIH-funded Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC). His scientific work has focused on the actions of various peripheral hormones in the CNS that serve to regulate food intake, body weight and the levels of circulating fuels. His work has also focused on new treatment strategies for obesity and diabetes. He has published over 360 peer-reviewed articles. Collectively, this work has been cited more than 36,000 times and Dr. Seeley has a scopus h-index of 97.