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(1981-1987) and Wayne State University (1987-1991). Dr.
Delamater has received many research grants from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has published widely in
the field of pediatric behavioral medicine, focusing on diabetes
and obesity. He is currently funded by grants from the NIH
and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for
work addressing health disparities in adolescents with type 1
diabetes and obesity prevention in ethnic minority children.
Dr. Delamater has served in leadership roles with the ADA,
American Psychological Association (APA), International
Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD),
and the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). With the
ADA, he was a member of the Scientific Sessions Planning
Committee (1995-1997) and Research Policy Committee
(1998-2000), served as an associate editor of Clinical
Diabetes (2002-2006), and participated in the development
of two consensus reports published in Diabetes Care
(2013 and 2016). He was president of the APA's Society of
Pediatric Psychology (2007). With ISPAD, he was on the
Advisory Council (2006-2008) and was conference president
for the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting. With SBM, he was
chair of the Council on Publications and Communications
(2013-2016) and a senior associate editor for Translational
Behavioral Medicine (2020-2022).
Dr. Delamater is a fellow of the APA and SBM. He has
received multiple awards from SBM, including the LifeScan
Diabetes Research Award (1997 and 1999), the Tracy
Orleans Distinguished Service Award (2016), the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Child and Family Special
Interest Group (2017), and the Distinguished Mentor Award
(2019). He reviews regularly for professional journals and
granting agencies, is active as a teacher and clinician, and is
board-certified in clinical health psychology.
Roger Pecoraro Award-Presented
by the Foot Care Interest Group
Eric Senneville, MD, PhD, trained in
medicine in Lille University in France
before specializing from 1983 to 1991 in
cardiology, nephrology, internal medicine,
and infectious diseases. He participated
in the creation of a multidisciplinary team for diabetic foot
infections in 1996, with a special interest in the management
of patients with diabetes and osteomyelitis of the foot.
Dr. Senneville has been a consultant at the Department of
Orthopedic Surgery of the Lille University Hospital since 1995.
He is head of a 42-bed unit in the University Department of
Infectious Diseases at the Gustave Dron Hospital of Tourcoing,
France, and since 2008 has been the coordinator of one of the
nine French national referent centers for the management of
patients with complex osteo-articular infections.
Dr. Senneville is chair of the expert panel of both the
Infectious Diseases Society of America and the International
Working Group on the Diabetic Foot for guidelines on the
management of diabetic foot infections. He has authored
more than 250 indexed review articles and original articles
and more than 30 textbook chapters.
Michaela Modan Memorial Award-
Presented by the Public Health and
Epidemiology Interest Group
Each year, one outstanding abstract
is awarded the Public Health and
Epidemiology Interest Group's Michaela
Modan Memorial Award, named for
Michaela Modan, an Israeli epidemiologist who made major
contributions to the understanding of type 2 diabetes, insulin
resistance, hypertension, and diabetes complications. This
award is selected by a committee of Israeli scientists from
the top abstracts, as determined by the Public Health and
Epidemiology Interest Group leadership team, submitted
to the ADA for human studies on the epidemiology,
complications, and prevention of diabetes.
The 2022 Michaela Modan Award was presented to
Qiaochu Xue, MPH, for the abstract " Circulating MicroRNA378a-5p
and Improvement in Glucose Homeostasis in
Response to Weight-Loss Diets: The Preventing Overweight
Using Novel Dietary Strategies (POUNDS LOST) Trial. "
WIN ADA Lois Jovanovic Transformative
Women in Diabetes Award
The Women's Interprofessional
Network of the American Diabetes
Association (WIN ADA) honored
Maureen Gannon, PhD, as the
recipient of the 2022 of the Lois
Jovanovic Transformative Woman in
Diabetes Award, which recognizes a
woman scientist, clinician, educator, or other professional
who has made a significant impact in the field of diabetes
and in the lives of people affected by the disease.
This award, named for Lois Jovanovic, MD, an iconic
scientist in the field of diabetes who passed away in
September 2018, recognizes a woman who has made a
significant impact in diabetes care, research, education,
or public health.
Dr. Gannon is a native of Queens, NY. She earned a
bachelor's degree from Molloy College, a master's degree
from Adelphi University, and a doctorate from Cornell
University Medical College. Dr. Gannon completed her
postdoctoral training in the Department of Cell and
Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University and in 2001
was recruited to join the faculty there in the Division of
Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism in the Department
of Medicine. She became a full professor in 2016.
Research in the Gannon laboratory focuses on the
development and regeneration of β-cells and has
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