Hallett Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology

Ivana Lukacova-Zib, MD

Clinical staff member, Rhode Island Hospital and Providence Veteran Administration Hospital
Clinical assistant professor of medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

MD, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 1994
Board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism

Ivana Lukacova-Zib joined the faculty in 2007 as a clinical assistant professor in division of endocrinology and diabetes. Her education includes Third Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and Communiqués University in Slovakia. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh, McKeesport and a fellowship in endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 2006. She subsequently worked as an endocrinologist as a part of multispeciality group in North Dartmouth, Mass.

Dr. Lukacova-Zib is currently board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology and diabetes.

Recent Publications:

Cardiac Steatosis in Diabetes Mellitus A H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study, 2007, Circulation, 116:1170-1175.
The Effect of Pioglitazone Therapy on Myocardial and Hepatic Steatosis in Insulin –Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, 7/2007, Journal of Investigative Medicine, 55(5): 1-8.
Novel Insulin Analogues and Its Mitogenic Potential, 2006, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 8(6): 611-620.
Case Study: Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Type 2 Diabetes: "Look Under the Sheets", 2004, Clinical Diabetes, 22: 198-200.
Myocardial Triglyceride Content is Elevated in Human Obesity, Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Type 2 Diabetes, 2006, Diabetes 55(Suppl 1): 1723.
Improvement in Hepatic Steatosis in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Treated with Combination of Pioglitazone and Insulin, 2006, Diabetes 55(Suppl 1): 75-OR.

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