New Orleans, LA (June 9, 2009) – The American Diabetes Association, the nation’s leading voluntary health organization in the fight against diabetes, announced today that several leading researchers, clinicians, and educators in the diabetes field were presented with awards at the organization’s 69th Scientific Sessions, which ends today. 

Steven V. Edelman, MD, San Diego, CA 
Title:    Steven V. Edelman, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Diego and Veterans  Affairs Medical Center; Founder and Director, Taking Control of Your Diabetes (501c3)
Award: Outstanding Educator in Diabetes

George S. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, Aurora, CO 
Title:    Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and  Immunology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Award: Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement

Mahmoud Ashraf Ibrahim, MD, Cairo, Egypt
Title:    Consultant Diabetologist
Award: Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes

Daniel L. Lorber, MD, FACP, CDE, Flushing, NY
Title:    Associate Director, Lang Research Center and Director of Endocrinology, New York Hospital Queens
Award: Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes

Susan McLaughlin, CDE, RD, Omaha, NE
Title:    President, Health Care & Education, American Diabetes Association
Award: Rachmiel Levine Award for Service
 
James B. Meigs, MD, MPH, Boston, MA
Title:    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; General Medicine Division, Massachusetts  General Hospital
Award: Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology

R. Paul Robertson, MD,  Seattle, WA
Title:    President, Medicine & Science, American Diabetes Association
Award: Banting Medal for Service

Aldo A. Rossini, MD, Sudbury, MA
Title: Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Award: Albert Renold Award

Randy J. Seeley, PhD, Cincinnati, OH
Title:    Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director of the Obesity Research Center at the University of Cincinnati  College of Medicine
Award: Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award

Complete information, including biographies, photographs, and award descriptions can be found here.

The American Diabetes Association is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes and fighting for those affected by diabetes.  The Association funds research to prevent, cure and manage diabetes; delivers services to hundreds of communities; provides objective and credible information; and gives voice to those denied their rights because of diabetes.  Founded in 1940, our mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.  For more information please call the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) or visit www.diabetes.org.  Information from both these sources is available in English and Spanish.