Endocrinology & Metabolism

Roberta Harrison McDuffie, ACNS, BC, CDE, BSBA
Instructor of Medicine
Biomedical IRB Chair
Phone: (504)-988-0299
Email: rmcduff@tulane.edu

Biography

Roberta McDuffie is the principal research coordinator for endocrine research at Tulane University. Roberta and her staff oversee patient recruitment and care for hundreds of patients on more than ten clinical trials at any given time. Roberta is also a Certified Diabetes Educator, and she and her staff have conducted several community service programs throughout the greater New Orleans area on diabetes care for area residents.

Selected Publications

Thethi T, Rajapurkar M, Walker P, McDuffie R, Goff DC Jr, Probstfield J, Yau CL, Shah S, Christians U, Buse J, Fonseca V. Urinary catalytic iron in patients with type 2 diabetes without microalbuminuria--a substudy of the ACCORD Trial. Clin Chem. 2011 Feb;57(2):341-4. Epub 2010 Dec 15. No abstract available. PMID:21159897 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

McDuffie R, Summerson J, Reilly P, Blackwell C, Goff D, Kimel A, Crago L, Fonseca V. The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Trial and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for managing clinical trials during and after a natural disaster. Contemporary Clinical Trials 29 (2008) 756–761.

Fonseca VA, Pendergrass M, McDuffie RH. Handbook of Diabetes. Current Medicine Group, London, UK. 2006.

(Contributing Chapter) Fonseca, VA. Clinical Diabetes: Translating Research into Practice. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA. 2006. (Chapter 20, Diabetes Education) – McDuffie, R.

McDuffie R, Asafu-Adjaye N, Reilly P, Summerson J, Blackwell C, Goff D, Fonseca V, Accord Investigators. American Diabetes Association Abstract, No. 2369- PO, 2006. “ACCORD and Hurricane Katrina: A Clinical Trial in a Disaster Zone.”

McDuffie R. Council for the Advacement of Diabetes Research and Education (CADRE) online @ www.cadre-diabetes.org. “Overcoming Barriers to Intensive Insulin Administration.

McDuffie RH, Struck L, Burshell A. The Ochsner Journal 2001;3:149-157. “Empowerment for Diabetes Management: Integrating True Self-Management into the Medical Treatment and Management of Diabetes Mellitus.”