Open lecture: : "Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. An alarming increase in type 2 diabetes incidence at the age of 6-18 years in black and white children. Causes and Solutions"
Bert Little has an extensive education in analytics and population health, and is a formally educated physical/biological anthropologist with extensive experience working with non-U.S. populations. He has been working with databases since 1978 and has built several unique national databases for research purposes. He is active at the VA Medical Center-Dallas as a Senior Research Scientist at Medical Service, currently working with Medical Service, Division of Cardiology. His role in research projects broadly encompasses the field of applied mathematics, which includes, but is not limited to, clinical trial design and implementation, database design, statistical sample design, and multivariate analysis, and manuscript publication. Currently, he is recognized as a specialist, Big Data / database and data mining analyst, which refers to his knowledge and experience. At this time, his work directly relates to analysing risk factors for outcomes (e.g. type 2 diabetes, interventional cardiology, hepatitis C, colorectal, pancreatic, lung, liver cancer). Additionally, Dr. Little has over 25 years of experience working with patient populations with underdeveloped infrastructure, and has research experience in recruiting and retaining patients from Parkland Hospital Dallas, including inpatients and outpatients. He has successfully designed and implemented programs including: treatment of pregnant substance users, substance abuse-related medical services for the homeless, a large multi-million dollar research project for government entities conducting research in applied mathematics, large multicenter international clinical trials in interventional cardiology for pharmaceutical companies, converting multi-terabyte government data silos into high-performance RDBMS computing systems, research on type 2 diabetes in genetic isolation (Zapotec and Mixe) in the Oaxaca Valley, southern Mexico, and population health in Kentucky focusing on diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and Mexico - focusing on diabetes, kidney failure, and childhood obesity. In his work, he also collaborates with other specialists, including those dealing with the role of regular physical activity in the health and fitness of the population at various stages of development and of various origins.
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