UAMS Pediatrics

• Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
• Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
• Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology

Sections

• Neonatology

Contact Information

• Email:	McgeheeRobertE@uams.edu
  Phone:	501-603-1998
  Fax:	501-603-1425
  Address:	Arkansas Children's Hospital
  	1 Children's Way
  	Little Rock, AR 72202

Education

• Attended, University of Central Arkansas, 1977
• B.S.E., University of Arkansas, 1979
• Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1990

Training

• Research Fellow in Medicine, Molecular Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hopsital, 1990-1993

Recent Honors

• Red Sash Award, College of Medicine Senior Class, 2009
• Gold Sash Award, College of Medicine Senior Class Faculty Honor, 2009
• Educator Emeritus, UAMS Department of Pediatrics, 2007
• Red Sash Award, 2007 College of Medicine SEnior Class for Significant Contributions to Medical Education, 2007

Recent Publications

• Journal Article, Ross AS, Tsang R, Shewmake K. Expression of p107 and p130 during human adipose-derived stem cell adipogenesis. Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications 2008 Feb; 366(4):927-31.
• Journal Article, Yao-Borengasser A., Rasouli N., Varma V., Bodles AM., Unal R., Phanavanh B., Ranganathan G., McGehee RE Jr., Kern PA. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) gene expression increases following pioglitazone treatment and is associated with PPAR-gamma responsiveness.. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 93:4431-9.
• Journal Article, Varma V, ., Yao-Borengasser A., Bodles AM., Rasouli N., Phanavanh B., Nolen GT., Nagarajan R., Spencer III HJ., Lee MJ., Fried SK., McGehee RE Jr*., Peterson CA*., Kern PA* (co-senior authors). Thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) is an adipokine associated with obesity, adipose inflammation and insulin resistance. Diabetes 2008 57:432-439.
• Journal Article, Yao-Borengasser A., Rasouli N., Varma V., Bodles AM., Unal R., Phanavanh B., Ranganathan G., McGehee Jr. RE., Kern PA. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1(SCD1) gene expression increases following pioglitazone treatment and is associated with PPAR-gamma responsiveness.. J Clin endocrinol Metab 2008 93:4431-9.
• Journal Article, Yao-Borengasser A, Varma V, Bodies AM, Rasouli N, Phanavanh B, Lee MJ, Starks T, Kern LM, Spencer HJ, Rashidi AA, Fried SK, Kern PA. Retinol binding protein 4 expression in humans: relationship to insulin resistance, inflammation, and response to pioglitazone. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & metabolism 2007 July; 92(7):2590-7.
• Journal Article, Varma V. Yao-Borengasser A, Rasouli N, Bodles AM, Phanavanh B, Lee MJ, Starks T, Kern LM, Spencer HJ III, Fried SK. Human visfatin expression: relationship to insulin sensitivity, intramyocellular lipids, and inflammation. Journal of Clinical Endrocrinology & Metabolism 2007 February; 92 (7):666-72.
• Journal Article, Boerma M, Wang J, McGehee Jr. RE, Hauer-Jensen M. Comparative expression profiling in primary and immortalized endothelial cells: changes in gene expression in response to HMG-CoA reductase inhibition. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 2006; 3:173-180.
• Journal Article, Bodles AM, Varma V, Yao-Borengasser A, Phanavanh B, Peterson CA, McGehee Jr. RE, Rasouli N, Wabitsch M, Kern PA. Pioglitazone induces apoptosis of macrophages in human adipose tissue. J Lipid Res 2006; 47:2080-2088.
• Journal Article, Yao-Borengasser A, Rasouli N, Varma V, Miles LM, Phanavanh B, Starks TN, Phan J, Spencer HJ III, McGehee Jr. RE, Renue K, Kern PA. Lipin expression is attenuated in adipose tissue of insulin-resistant human subjects and increases with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma activation. Diabetes 2006; 55:2811-2818.
• Journal Article, Vertino AM, Taylor-Jones JM, Longo KA, Bearden ED, Lane TF, McGehee Jr. RE, MacDougald OA, Peterson CA. Wnt10b deficiency promotes coexpression of myogenic and adipogenic programs in myoblasts. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:2039-48.

Recent Grant Awards

• Mechanisms Underlying Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity, NIH/NIDDK, 5 R01 DK071277-04, 6/1/2005-5/31/2010
• Mechanisms Underlying Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity, NIH/NIDDK, 5 R01 DK071346-04, 6/1/2005-5/31/2010