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Professional Interest Groups and WIN ADA Announce Award Recipients
Professional Interest Group Awards
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) professional
Interest Groups awarded four awards at the 82nd Scientific
Sessions. These awards recognize and honor individuals in
the diabetes scientific and medical community for exceptional
leadership, significant research contributions, and outstanding
career achievements in the areas of behavioral medicine and
psychology, podiatry, pregnancy and reproductive health, and
macrovascular complications of diabetes.
Congratulations to each of the following the award recipients!
Nominations for these awards are now being accepted for
2023. Please visit Professional Membership Nominations
to learn more. Complete your nomination packets to honor
outstanding leaders in these fields by September 16, 2022.
Edwin Bierman Award-Presented
by the Diabetes and Cardiovascular
Disease Interest Group
Gary Lewis, MD, FRCPC, completed his
medical training in 1982 at the University
of Witwatersrand in South Africa, followed
by specialty training in internal medicine
and endocrinology at the University of Chicago. He joined
the staff of Toronto General Hospital in 1990, where he has
served as head of the Division of Endocrinology at University
Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospitals (2001-2012),
director of the University of Toronto Division of Endocrinology
and Metabolism (2008-2017), and director of the Banting and
Best Diabetes Centre (2011-present). Dr. Lewis is the principal
investigator of a Diabetes Research Network (Diabetes
Action Canada) of more than 110 investigators and 80 patient
partners, which is funded through the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research
Chronic Disease Network Initiative. He is a full professor in the
Departments of Medicine and Physiology at the University of
Toronto and holds the Sun Life Financial Chair in Diabetes and
the Drucker Family Chair in Diabetes Research.
Dr. Lewis is recognized internationally as a foremost expert
in the field of lipoprotein metabolism in insulin resistance
and diabetes. He has made several important observations
elucidating the mechanisms of diabetic dyslipidemia, most
notably the multi-organ regulation of hepatic and intestinal
lipoprotein secretion. His recent work examining molecular
mechanisms of intestinal lipoprotein secretion has revealed
the importance of lipid storage in enterocytes well after meal
ingestion and its subsequent mobilization by nutrients and
hormones. Dr. Lewis has also contributed significantly to our
understanding of the mechanisms of HDL lowering in insulin
resistant/hypertriglyceridemic states, demonstrating that HDL
lipid compositional changes enhance the clearance of HDL
cholesterol from the circulation. His research is notable for
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taking an integrative, whole-body approach in both humans
and animal models.
Norbert Freinkel Award- Presented
by the Pregnancy and Reproductive
Health Interest Group
Anny H. Xiang, PhD, has had
undergraduate and graduate training in
biomedical engineering and physiology
and a doctorate in biostatistics. She coled
the University of Southern California (USC) Gestational
Diabetes Study Group for more than a decade before moving
to Kaiser Permanente Southern California to direct the
Biostatistics Research Division.
Throughout her career, Dr. Xiang applied her multidisciplinary
background to the design, conduct, and interpretation of
clinical research that addresses both mechanistic and clinical
questions. During her time at USC, she was instrumental in
defining how type 2 diabetes develops in young Hispanic
women who have had gestational diabetes. She made the
seminal discovery that diabetes can be prevented after
gestational diabetes by reducing, rather than increasing, the
insulin secretory load on the pancreas. At Kaiser Permanente,
she conducted a series of large, population-based studies
to assess the long-range adverse effects on offspring from
diabetes during pregnancy and racial/ethnic disparities.
She showed that offspring risks of autism, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, asthma, and obesity are all increased
across the spectrum of maternal diabetes. Dr. Xiang also coleads
mechanistic studies to identify and understand brain
pathways involved in the transgenerational transmission of
obesity and diabetes to offspring.
Dr. Xiang has published more than 160 peer-reviewed
research articles, 98 of which describe research findings in
the fields of diabetes and gestational diabetes. Her work
has provided important information for researchers studying
diabetes and pregnancy and for clinicians caring women with
diabetes during pregnancy and their children.
Richard R. Rubin Award-Presented
by the Behavioral Medicine and
Psychology Interest Group
Alan M. Delamater, PhD, ABPP,
received his bachelor's degree in
psychology from Carnegie Mellon
University (1975) and doctorate in clinical
psychology from the University of Georgia (1981). He is a
professor of pediatrics and psychology, director of clinical
psychology in the Department of Pediatrics, and director of
research in the Mailman Center for Child Development at the
University of Miami, where he has been employed since 1991.
He was previously on the faculty at Washington University
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