Dr. Randy Seeley is the Henry K. Ransom Endowed Professor of Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Medicine.  He also serves as the director of the NIH-funded Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC).  His scientific work has focused on the gut-brain axis's role in regulating energy balance, body weight, and circulating fuels.  His work has also focused on new treatment strategies for obesity and diabetes.  He has published over 390 peer-reviewed articles in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Cell Metabolism, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the New England Journal of Medicine.  This work has been cited more than 44,000 times, and Dr. Seeley has a Scopus h-index of 103.  Dr. Seeley has received numerous awards including the 2009 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the American Diabetes Association.  This award is presented to an individual medical researcher under age 45 who has made an outstanding contribution to diabetes research that demonstrates originality and independence of thought.  Dr. Seeley has also served on numerous review panels for the NIH and was Chair of the Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes.  He also served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.