Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Emma_Eggleston@harvardpilgrim.org
Phone: 617-509-9925
Fax: 617-859-8112
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Emma Eggleston, MD
Dr. Eggleston is an Instructor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Population Health Education, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) funded initiative to integrate a population context of health and illness in to medical training and equip future medical professionals with the tools to apply population-level strategies in their clinical care, research, and policy work. She is also the Associate Director of the Harvard Catalyst Provider and Health Systems Research program.
Dr. Eggleston received her Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She completed her fellowship in endocrinology at the University of Virginia, where she joined the faculty and conducted research on the vascular actions of insulin. Her clinical and research interests are in diabetes, obesity, and vascular disease. She practices endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School, where she is the recipient of the Curtis Proust Academy Fellowship in Medical Education.
Selected Publications:
Barrett EJ, Eggleston EM, Inyard AC, Wang H, Li G, Chai W, Liu Z.
The vascular actions of insulin control its delivery to muscle and regulate the rate-limiting step in insulin action.
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Diabetologia. 2009 May;5:752-764
Eggleston EM,Jahn LA,Barrett EJ,.
Hyperinsulinemia rapidly increases human muscle microvascular perfusion but fails to increase muscle insulin clearance: evidence that a saturable process mediates muscle insulin uptake
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Diabetes. 2007 Dec;12:2958-2963
Helm K, Eggleston EM, Isaacs R, Nadkarni M, Snyder A, Martin, M.
Into the Gap: Medical Relief and Health Care in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
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Journal of Race and Policy. 2007;1:-
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