Monique Barakat, MD, Marina Basina, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine

Research Description: Dr. Basina is a clinical endocrinologist and researcher with expertise in diabetes management, diabetes technology, and the intersection of Type 1 diabetes with athletic performance, pregnancy, and pancreatogenic diabetes. As the medical director of Stanford’s inpatient diabetes service and Type 1 Diabetes program, she created protocols for managing Type 1 diabetic athletes during training and competition. She has served as the principal investigator in several industry-sponsored clinical trials and coinvestigator in NIH-funded studies, including the NIH Type 1 Diabetes Acute Pancreatitis Consortium (T1DAPC), where she investigates the progression from pancreatitis to Type 3c diabetes and pancreatic cancer. Dr. Basina is also a co-investigator on the DETECT study, evaluating a mixed meal test for diagnosing Type 3c diabetes linked to pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis. She contributes to the Stanford Pancreatic Islet Replacement & Immune Tolerance Initiative (SPIRIT), working on both autologous and allogeneic transplantations. Her research includes how PCOS contributes to diabetes risk and how nutritional strategies can improve metabolic outcomes in patients with PCOS and other genetic forms of obesity, aligning closely with NORC’s mission to advance research in obesity and metabolic health. Dr. Basina collaborates extensively with many members of the NORC.