W. Timothy Garvey

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W. Timothy Garvey is an American endocrinologist and Butterworth Professor of Medicine in the department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He is known for his work on diabetes and is director of the medical school's Diabetes Research Center. [1]

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  1. "W. Timothy Garvey, M.D." University of Alabama at Birmingham. Retrieved 18 August 2020.