Director's Welcome

Thank you for your interest in the Nutrition and Metabolism Fellowship program at the UMKC School of Medicine. This one-year, non-ACGME program is designed to provide clinical and research training in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease, including obesity, lipids, type 2 diabetes and nutrition. Graduates will acquire the competencies needed to enter clinical or academic practice in health promotion, disease prevention, care and treatment for diverse patient populations of all genders — from adolescence to old age — to improve cardiometabolic health and promote healthy aging. The program offers training and experience in both quality improvement and clinical research.

Our fellowship program is based out of two area hospitals — University Health Truman Medical Center (UHTMC) and University Health Lakewood Medical Center (UHLMC). UHTMC is a safety-net hospital co-located in the UMKC Health Sciences District of Kansas City, Mo., providing an urban, academic medical center setting. UHLMC is located about 17 miles away in Lee’s Summit, Mo., allowing fellows to experience a more suburban practice. Although affiliated with the Division of Endocrinology, the fellowship is a collaboration among the faculty in endocrinology, cardiology and other specialties (nephrology, sleep medicine, weight management, sports medicine, nutrition, etc.), so that fellows have clinical experience in disciplines involved in the treatment and prevention of cardiometabolic disease and its complications.

One fellow per year is accepted into the program. This fellow interacts with the two endocrinology fellows in clinic and conferences and with other residents and fellows on clinical rotations in other disciplines.

We accept applicants who have completed a residency in either internal medicine or family medicine.

The program opened in 2022. We and other School of Medicine faculty are excited about the opportunity to train fellows in nutrition and metabolism that impact the important, emerging field of cardiometabolic health.