Bert Boyer

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Bert Boyer is an American molecular biologist who is the Professor of Molecular Biology for the Department of Biology and Wildlife at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bob and Charlee Moore Endowed Professor, Director of Alaska Native Health Research, and OHSU Knight for the Cardiovascular Institute School of Medicine. He was instrumental in forming the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. [1] [2] Boyer's research group specifically focuses on genetic and environmental risk and prevention initiatives related to obesity and diabetes in Yup'ik Eskimos from Southwest Alaska.

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Education

In 1982, Boyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He then attended LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he obtained his Ph.D. for Physiology in 1988. [3]

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Boyer's Community-based participatory research (CBPR) with the Yup'ik Eskimos, emphasizes the importance of collaboration with Alaskan Native community as equal partners in all phases of the research process with the goal of eliminating health disparities. Boyer and his colleagues have conducted a fifteen-year longitudinal study in rural Alaska, which involves about 2,000 Yup’ik Alaska Natives based in eleven communities around Alaska. Their research evaluates how the Native peoples subsistence style diet and physical activity may prevent chronic diseases, such as diabetes. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bert Boyer | College of Education and Human Sciences". cehs.unl.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  2. ↑ "Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology School of Medicine Bob and Charlee Moore Endowed Professor Director". Oregon Health & Science University. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. ↑ OHSU (2019). General Information: Bert Boyer, PhD., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology School of Medicine; Bob and Charlee Moore Endowed Professor; Director, Alaska Native Health Research; OHSU Knight Cardiovascular Institute School of Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.ohsu.edu/people/bert-boyer/045E1FADFFBBA98420A913EB67F4DDCD
  4. ↑ CEHS (2019). University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Disease: College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS). Retrieved from https://cehs.unl.edu/npod/bert-boyer/ Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Grarup, N.; Moltke, I.; Andersen, M.K.; et al. (2018). "Identification of novel high-impact recessively inherited type 2 diabetes risk variants in Greenlandic Inuit". Diabetologia. 61: 2005. doi:10.1007/s00125-018-4659-2.
  6. ↑ Henderson, LM; Claw, KG; Woodahl, EL; et al. (2018). "P450 Pharmacogenetics in Indigenous North American Populations". J Pers Med. 8 (1): 9. doi: 10.3390/jpm8010009 .
  7. ↑ Koller, KR; Flanagan, CA; Day, GE; Patten, C; Umans, JG; Austin, MA; Hopkins, SE; Raindl, C; Boyer, B (2017). "High tobacco use prevalence with significant regional and sex differences in smokeless tobacco use among Western Alaska Native people: the WATCH study". Int J Circumpolar Health. 76 (1): 1398009. doi:10.1080/22423982.2017.1398009. PMC   5700538 . PMID   29130421.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  8. ↑ Philip, J; Ryman, TK; Hopkins, SE; O'Brien, DM; Bersamin, A; Pomeroy, J; Thummel, KE; Austin, MA; Boyer, BB; Dombrowski, K (Nov 2017). "Bi-cultural dynamics for risk and protective factors for cardiometabolic health in an Alaska Native (Yup'ik) population". PLOS ONE. 12 (11): e0183451. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1283451P. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183451 . PMC   5665420 . PMID   29091709.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  9. ↑ Au, NT; Ryman, T; Rettie, AE; Hopkins, SE; Boyer, BB; Black, J; Philip, J; Yracheta, J; Fohner, AE; Reyes, M; Thornton, TA; Austin, MA; Thummel, KE (Feb 2018). "Dietary Vitamin K and Association with Hepatic Vitamin K Status in a Yup'ik Study Population from Southwestern Alaska". Mol Nutr Food Res. 62 (3) 1700746: 3. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201700746. PMC   5803412 . PMID   29094808.
  10. ↑ Au, NT; Reyes, M; Boyer, BB; Hopkins, SE; Black, J; O'Brien, D; Fohner, AE; Yracheta, J; Thornton, T; Austin, MA; Burke, W; Thummel, KE; Rettie, AE (Apr 2017). "Dietary and genetic influences on hemostasis in a Yup'ik Alaska Native population". PLOS ONE. 12 (4): e0173616. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1273616A. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173616 . PMC   5380313 . PMID   28376131.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  11. ↑ Ryman, TK; Boyer, BB; Hopkins, SE; Philip, J; Thompson, B; Beresford, SAA; Thummel, KE; Austin, MA (Jul 2018). "Association between iq'mik smokeless tobacco use and cardiometabolic risk profile among Yup'ik Alaska Native people". Ethn Health. 23 (5): 488–502. doi:10.1080/13557858.2017.1280136. PMC   5796859 . PMID   28116909.
  12. ↑ Lemas, DJ; Klimentidis, YC; Aslibekyan, S; Wiener, HW; O'Brien, DM; Hopkins, SE; Stanhope, KL; Havel, PJ; Allison, DB; Fernandez, JR; Tiwari, HK; Boyer, BB (Dec 2016). "Polymorphisms in stearoyl coa desaturase and sterol regulatory element binding protein interact with N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intake to modify associations with anthropometric variables and metabolic phenotypes in Yup'ik people". Mol Nutr Food Res. 60 (12): 2642–2653. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201600170. PMC   5148654 . PMID   27467133.
  13. ↑ Aslibekyan, S; Vaughan, LK; Wiener, HW; Hidalgo, BA; Lemas, DJ; O'Brien, DM; Hopkins, SE; Stanhope, KL; Havel, PJ; Thummel, KE; Boyer, BB; Tiwari, HK (2016). "Linkage and association analysis of circulating vitamin D and parathyroid hormone identifies novel loci in Alaska Native Yup'ik people". Genes Nutr. 11 23. doi: 10.1186/s12263-016-0538-y . PMC   4971612 . PMID   27579147.
  14. ↑ O'Brien, DM; Thummel, KE; Bulkow, LR; Wang, Z; Corbin, B; Klejka, J; Hopkins, SE; Boyer, BB; Hennessy, TW; Singleton, R (Jul 2017). "Declines in traditional marine food intake and vitamin D levels from the 1960s to present in young Alaska Native women". Public Health Nutr. 20 (10): 1738–1745. doi:10.1017/S1368980016001853. PMC   5274583 . PMID   27465921.
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