2001-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University
1997-2000: Graduate Assistantship, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University.
1996-97: Teaching Assistantship, Recitation (Nutrition: A Physiological & Biochemical Basis)
1994-96: Graduate Assistantship, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University.
1993-94: Pre-doctoral Fellow of the American Heart Association, Laboratory of S.K. Fried
1990-92: Research Assistant, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Laboratory of S.K. Fried
Research Interests: I’m interested in the regulation of hormonal and metabolic mediators of the effects of nutrition on the development and maintenance of obesity and diabetes, especially as they relate to adipose tissue metabolism and adipose secretory products.
Dissertation Title: Regulation of Leptin in Human Adipose Tissue; Advisor: Susan K. Fried, Ph.D.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Travel Award: 8th International Congress on Obesity, Paris, France, 1998.
Communication of Scientific and Agricultural Research Award: Cook College/New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 1996.
Ethan Simms Young Investigator’s Award Finalist: NAASO Annual Meeting 1996, Breckenridge, Colorado.
Pre-doctoral Fellow of the American Heart Association, NJ Affiliate, 1993-1994.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Russell CD, Ricci MR, Brolin RE, Magill E and Fried SK. Regulation of the leptin content of obese human adipose tissue. Am J Physiol. 2001 Mar;280: E399-404.
Russell CD, Petersen RN, Rao SP, Ricci MR, Prasad A, Zhang Y, Brolin RE, Fried SK. Leptin expression in adipose tissue from obese humans: depot-specific regulation by insulin and dexamethasone. Am J Physiol. 1998 Sep;275:E507-15.
Fried SK, Russell CD, Grauso NL and Brolin RE. Lipoprotein lipase regulation by insulin and glucocorticoid in subcutaneous and omental adipose tissues of obese women and men. J Clin Invest. 92: 2191-2198, 1993.
Ricci MR, Russell CD, Schneider SH, Brolin RE and Fried SK. Isoproterenol decreases leptin release from human adipose tissue through a post-translational mechanism. (Submitted)
Reviews and Book Chapters
Fried SK, Ricci MR, Russell CD and Laferrère B. Regulation of leptin production in humans. J Nutr. 2000, Dec;130(12):3127-31.
Fried SK, Russell CD, Papaspyrou-Rao S, Ricci MR and Bunkin DA. Depot differences in the regulation of adipocyte secretory products in human adipose tissue: the examples of lipoprotein lipase and leptin. In: Recent advances in Obesity Research VIII. Guy-Grand B, and Ailhaud G, Eds., 1999.
Fried SK and Russell CD. Diverse roles of adipose tissue in the regulation of systemic metabolism and energy balance. Handbook of Obesity, Marcel Dekker, NY. Bray GA, Bouchard C, and James WPT, Eds, pp. 397-414, 1998.
ABSTRACTS
Russell CD, Ricci MR, Brolin RE, Magill E and Fried SK. Regulation of tissue leptin content in obese human adipose. Oral presentation- North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Charleston, SC, Nov. 1999. Obes Res. 7(suppl. 1): 53S.
Russell CD, Rao SP, Ricci MR, Peterson RN, Brolin RE and Fried SK. Depot-specific effects of insulin and dexamethasone on leptin expression in human adipose tissue. Poster presented at the 8th International Congress On Obesity, Paris, 1998. Int. J. Obes. 22(3):S105, 1998.
Russell CD, Ricci MR, Rao SP, Peterson RN, Brolin RE and Fried SK. Regulation of human leptin by insulin and dexamethasone. Poster presented at Keystone conference: The Fat Cell. January 1997, Park City, Utah.
Russell CD, Ricci MR, Rao SP, Peterson RN, Brolin RE and Fried SK. Regulation of leptin mRNA levels by insulin and dexamethasone in human omental and subcutaneous adipose tissues. Oral presentation- North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Breckenridge, CO, October 1996. Obes Res. 4(1s):26s, 1996.
Russell CD, D’Souza T, Lee J-J and Fried SK. Hormonal regulation of lipoprotein lipase turnover in rat adipose tissue. Poster presented at Experimental Biology '96. FASEB J. 10:A232, 1996.
Russell CD and Fried SK. Hormonal effects on glycosylation of human adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase. Poster presented at the 7th International Congress on Obesity, Toronto, Canada, August 1994.
Russell CD and Fried SK. Distribution of human adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase. Poster presented at FASEB '93. FASEB J. 7:A608, 1993.
Russell CD, Fanelli J and Fried SK. Variations in lipoprotein lipase regulation in human omental and abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue. Poster presented at North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Sacramento, CA, October 1991.
