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Planning Committee

The overall philosophy of the Scientific Sessions is to present cutting edge research or opinion that is not heard in other meetings and conferences held throughout the year. The Scientific Sessions Meeting Planning Committee is responsible for developing challenging and exciting program content that reaches across diverse disciplines to teach lessons of relevance to diabetes.

Alice Y.Y Cheng, MD, FRCPC  
University of Toronto
Committee Chair

Anastasia Albanese-O'Neill, PhD, APRN, CDCES 
JDRF
Content Area: New Technology

Lynn Ang, MD 
University of Michigan
Content Area: Neuropathy

Mark Atkinson, PhD
University of Florida College of Medicine
Content Area: Beta Cell Replacement

Mark Benson, MD, PhD
Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
Content Area: Macrovascular Complications

Petter Bjornstad, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Content Area: Diabetic Kidney Disease

Karin Bornfeldt, PhD
University of Washington
Content Area: Lipids

Miriam Cnop, MD, PhD 
Erasmus Hospital
Content Area: Islet Biology/Insulin Secretion

Jeffrey S. Gonzalez, PhD
NY-Regional Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Content Area: Psychosocial, Behavioral Medicine

Jennifer B. Green, MD
Duke University School of Medicine
Content Area: Clinical Therapeutics

Kimberly Gudzune, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Content Area: Obesity/Pathogensis of Obesity

Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP
Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute
Content Area: Therapeutics/New Technology

Elizabeth T. Jensen, MPH, PhD
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Content Area: Epidemiology

Richard Kibbey, MD, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
Content Area: Insulin Action/Molecular Metabolism

Alice Long, PhD
Benaroya Research Institute
Content Area: Immunology

Brian O'Neill, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
Content Area: Metabolism, In Vivo (Humans)

Stephen Parker, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School
Content Area: Genetics 
Matthew J. Potthoff, PhD 
University of Iowa
Content Area: Insulin Action/Molecular Metabolism

Ravi Retnakaran, MD, FRCPC
University of Toronto
Content Area: Clinical Therapeutics


Jane Seley, DNP, MPH 
Weill Cornell College
Content Area: Education

Viral N. Shah, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Campus
Content Area: New Technology
 
Emily K. Sims, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Content Area: Islet Biology/Insulin Secretion

Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Content Area: Retinopathy

Michelle D. Stancil, MS, BSN, RN, CDCES
Prisma Health
Content Area: Education

Andrea Steck, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Content Area: Youth

Emily Szmuilowicz, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Content Area: Pregnancy

Celeste Thomas, MD
University of Chicago
Content Area: Health Care Improvement

Jenny Tong, MD, MPH
University of Washington
Content Area: Obesity/Pathogenesis of Obesity

Garneisha M. Torrence, DPM, MHMS
University of Michigan Medical School
Content Area: Foot Care/Lower Extremities

Elena Toschi, MD
Joslin Diabetes Center
Content Area: Hypoglycemia

Patti Urbanski, MEd, RD, LD, CDCES
St. Luke's Diabetes Care Program
Content Area: Clinical Nutrition

Allison Xu, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Content Area: Metabolism, In Vivo (Animals)

Jane Yardley, PhD
University of Alberta
Content Area: Exercise

Sakeneh Zraika, PhD
VA Puget Sound Health Care System & University of Washington
Content Area: Islet Biology/Insulin Secretion