Alexandra Butler, M.D.
Assistant Adjunct
Professor of Medicine
Hillblom Islet Research
Center
900A Weyburn Place North
Los Angeles, CA
90095-7345
(310) 206-5368
E-mail: aebutler@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr. Alexandra Butler is a trained pathologist who heads up the Human Tissue Core of the LHIRC. Her work emphasizes human pancreas studies in both type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Her work established that there is a major deficit in beta cells in humans with type-2 diabetes, and that islet turnover continues in adult humans.