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Aaron I. Vinik

Aaron I. Vinik, also known as Aaron Vinik, was a South African-born American endocrinologist who discovered the INGAP gene and directed research at the Strelitz Diabetes Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

Allison B. Goldfine

Allison B. Goldfine is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes at Joslin Diabetes Center, known for research on insulin sensitivity, inflammation in obesity, and cardiovascular safety of diabetes therapies.

Andrew J.M. Boulton

Andrew J.M. Boulton is a British diabetologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester, known for research on diabetic neuropathy and diabetic foot disease.

Anthony Barnett (physician-scientist)

Anthony H. Barnett, known as Tony Barnett, is a British diabetes and endocrinology researcher, Emeritus Professor at Birmingham who led a 2004 telmisartan kidney-protection trial.

Antoinette Moran

Antoinette Moran is an American pediatric endocrinologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for research on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and type 1 diabetes prevention trials.

Arlan L. Rosenbloom

Arlan L. Rosenbloom (1934–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Florida who shaped pediatric diabetes care and defined the world's largest Laron syndrome cohort in Ecuador.

Bernard Zinman

Bernard Zinman is a Canadian clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital who led the DCCT and EMPA-REG OUTCOME diabetes trials and entered the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2026.

Bruce A. Perkins

Bruce A. Perkins is a Canadian endocrinologist at the University of Toronto who researches prediction and prevention of type 1 diabetes complications, including kidney disease and nerve injury.

Chantal Mathieu

Chantal Mathieu is a Belgian endocrinologist at KU Leuven who studies the prevention of type 1 diabetes and served as EASD president from 2022 to 2025.

Coen D.A. Stehouwer

Coen D.A. Stehouwer (born 1960) is a Dutch internist and professor of internal medicine at Maastricht University, known for research on the vascular complications of type 2 diabetes.

Dario Giugliano

Dario Giugliano is an Italian researcher in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Università della Campania in Naples, best known for the 2004 JAMA Mediterranean-diet trial.

David Hurwitz (endocrinologist)

David Hurwitz was an American endocrinologist who chaired medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and whose placebo-controlled studies of the first oral diabetes drugs, published in 1961 and 1967, remain methodological standards.

David Kipnis

David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.

David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan is an American endocrinologist who directed the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the DCCT and Diabetes Prevention Program trials.

David R. Matthews

David R. Matthews, born in 1947, is a British physician-scientist at Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Medicine, founding chairman of OCDEM, and co-chair of the CANVAS trial.

David R. Owens

David R. Owens is a British diabetes researcher, clinical lead for diabetes-related retinopathy at Swansea University Medical School, and author of the 2001 Lancet review "Insulins today and beyond".

Deborah J. Wexler

Deborah J. Wexler, also known as Deborah Wexler, is an endocrinologist who is Chief of the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

DKristina M. Utzschneider

Kristina M. Utzschneider is an American endocrinologist at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and the University of Washington who studies type 2 diabetes.

Edwin Gale

Edwin A.M. Gale is a British diabetologist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1997, known for the ENDIT type 1 diabetes prevention trial.

Ele Ferrannini

Ele Ferrannini (Eleuterio Ferrannini, 1948–2026) was an Italian physician-scientist at the University of Pisa known for quantitative research on insulin resistance, beta-cell function, and SGLT2 inhibition.

Ewan R. Pearson

Ewan R. Pearson is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, known for showing that a patient's genetic diagnosis determines which diabetes drug works.

Francesco Cosentino

Francesco Cosentino is an Italian-born cardiologist and professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Karolinska Institutet, chair of the 2019 ESC diabetes guidelines and ESC vice-president.

Francis J. Doyle III

Francis J. Doyle III is an American control engineer known for the artificial pancreas and for serving as dean of Harvard SEAS and provost of Brown University.

Frederick C. Goetz

Frederick C. Goetz (1922–2012) was an American diabetologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who directed the UGDP diabetes trial clinic and helped bring kidney and pancreas transplantation to diabetic patients.

Geremia B. Bolli

Geremia B. Bolli, born 1947, is an Italian endocrinologist at the University of Perugia known for 1984 New England Journal of Medicine papers on the dawn phenomenon.

Gian Carlo Viberti

Gian Carlo Viberti is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetes at King's College London, known for research on microalbuminuria and diabetic kidney disease.

Guenther Boden

Guenther Boden (1935–2015) was a German-born endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Temple University who first showed that elevated blood fatty acids interfere with insulin's action.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Hannele Yki‐Järvinen

Hannele Yki-Järvinen is a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki known for research linking liver fat to insulin resistance and insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes.

Harold E. Lebovitz

Harold E. Lebovitz is an American endocrinologist and diabetologist, a longtime Professor of Medicine at SUNY Downstate known for research on hormone resistance and diabetes.