Diabetes Dateline

News Brief: NIDDK Advisory Council Welcomes Seven New Members

Seven new members joined the NIDDK Advisory Council at its February 17 meeting. Joining the subcommittee on diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases are Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and a professor of medicine at Harvard, and Dr. Ming Jer Tsai, the Charles C. Bell Professor in the department of cell biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

The subcommittee on digestive diseases and nutrition (DDN) gained two new voices. Dr. Rena Wing is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, a professor of psychiatry, psychology, and epidemiology at the medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, and director of the NIDDK-funded Obesity and Nutrition Research Center in Pittsburgh. Also advising DDN is Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, head of the department of molecular biology and pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine.

NIDDK director Dr. Phillip Gorden (second from right) welcomes new members of the NIDDK Advisory Council. They are (l to r) Drs. Rena Wing, C. Ronald Kahn, John McConnell, Jeffrey Gordon, Ming Jer Tsai, and Dana Weaver-Osterholtz. Missing from the photo is Dr. Robert Schrier.

The council subcommittee on kidney, urology, and hematology has three newcomers: Dr. John McConnell, chair of the department of urology at Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas in Dallas; Dr. Robert Schrier, chair of the department of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver; and Dr. Dana Weaver-Osterholtz, associate professor in the department of surgery at the University of Missouri Medical School.