COMMENTARY on “Leaky Gut, Lectins, and Autoimmune Disease: Is There a Connection?”
Leaky Gut, Lectins, and Autoimmune Disease: What Do We Know?
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Robert Kimmel, M.D.
Robert Kimmel M.D. is certified by the American Board of internal medicine in Endocrinology and Diabetes. His background includes many years in clinical practice and research. Dr. Kimmel enrolled in the country’s first undergraduate program in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University Technological Institute in Evanston, Illinois, in 1970, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
He subsequently attended Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where he received his medical degree and later served as a resident in internal medicine. He worked for ten years in family and preventive medicine before focusing on endocrinology. He completed his endocrine fellowship at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
He received clinical training and experience at the N.I.H. Clinical Center, Georgetown University, and Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. At the N.I.H, he worked on molecular aspects of gene regulation in the laboratory of the late Dr. Alan Wolfe.
He returned to the Pacific North West in 1998 for a post-doctoral fellowship with the Paul Nieman Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and with Professor Scott Davis at the University of Washington Department of Epidemiology. The research focused on radiation-induced genomic instability in post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer and other model systems. Over the years Dr. Kimmel has practiced medicine in a variety of settings in Maryland, Missouri, and Washington, finally settling in Puyallup where he has practiced since 2009.