Department of Medicine

For Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, emeritus professor of physiology and biophysics and Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a desire to learn about the underlying mechanisms driving disease sparked an early interest in what would become groundbreaking research in the fields of lipid metabolism and cardiometabolic health.

Michael E. Wechsler, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], discusses the conditions that can develop as a result of abnormal eosinophilic activity.

“Any acute viral infection causes a release from the body of inflammatory mediators, which can make us very drowsy,” says UCHealth pulmonologist and sleep specialist Neale R. Lange [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s an instruction set to our body to increase its temperature—which is why you’ll often get a fever in the first few days of being sick—because a higher temperature helps defend against the virus or bacterium.”