Prof.Daniel J. Drucker

Currículo
Daniel J. Drucker é professor de Medicina e director do Banting and Best Diabetes Center, em Toronto, no Canadá. É ainda membro científico no Instituto de Investigação Samuel Lunenfeld, no Hospital Mt. Sinai, em Man-hattan, nos Estados Unidos e faz parte do conselho editorial das revistas Nature Clinical Practice of Endocrinology Metabolism e Endocrine Reviews.Do seu currículo fazem parte vários prémios internacionais - da Sociedade Americana para Investigação Clínica, por exemplo -, resultado da investigação que realiza, especialmente dedicada à descoberta dos mecanismos de acção da hormona GLP-1 e da forma como pode ser usada para o tratamento da diabetes, uma doença crónica que atinge mais de sete por cento da população adulta em todo o Mundo

Prof.Ele Ferrannini

Workpackage 1: Project management (Principal Investigator of RISC Project)
Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, I-56100 Pisa, Italy

Ele Ferrannini is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pisa School of Medicine and chief of the Metabolism Unit of the CNR (National Research Council) Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, Italy. Professor Ferrannini also holds a post as a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Diabetes Division of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. Currently serving as the president of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Professor Ferrannini has a special research interest in diabetes, in particular insulin resistance and compensatory insulin secretion. Professor Ferrannini has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, he is serving on numerous editorial boards, has been the Editor-in-Chief of Diabetologia and has served as an editor of the International Textbookof Diabetes Mellitus.

                                          
Prof.Francine R. Kaufman, MD

Title: Professor of Pediatrics and Communications at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California; Head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Francine Kaufman, MD, is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Communications at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California; Head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles She has published hundreds of articles; her most recent book is Diabesity (Bantam, 2005). She is chair of the Studies to Treat (the TODAY trial) and Prevent (the HEALTHY trial) Type 2 Diabetes in Youth (STOPP-T2) and a principal investigator in TrialNet, a multinational consortium evaluating ways to prevent type 1 diabetes. Formerly the national president of the American Diabetes Association (2002-2003), Kaufman is a board member of Shaping America's Health. She has been active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the National Diabetes Education Program (chair, 2008-2011) and the International Diabetes Federation (chair of the Youth Section, 2006-2009). In 2007 she co-chaired a task force for the State of California on diabetes prevention and treatment and was featured in the Discovery Health documentary Diabetes: The Global Epidemic. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005. In May, 2009, she will become the Chief Medical Officer and VP of Global Medical Affairs of Medtronic Diabetes.

                                               
Prof.Jaime Davidson, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.

Jaime A. Davidson, M.D., of Dallas is a physician and serves as president of the Endocrine and Diabetes Associates of Texas and clinical associate professor of Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Medical School. Davidson is being reappointed to the council. He serves as a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. His previous appointments include Midwestern State University regent, Texas Diabetes Council chairman and membership on the National Diabetes Advisory Board. A graduate of Liceo de Costa Rica, he received a medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He completed his training in internal medicine at Scott and White Hospital, now Texas A&M Univerisity System Health Science Center at Temple, and completed his endocrinology training at Indiana University School of Medicine. His term will expire Feb. 1, 2011.

Prof.Richard Nesto

The Relation of Insulin Resistance Syndromes to Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
Richard W. Nesto, MD (Chair)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Lahey Clinic
Burlington, Massachusetts

Prof.Steven Kahn, MD

VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
Steven E. Kahn, MB, ChB is a professor of medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition at the University of Washington and Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle. Additionally, he is Associate Director of the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center at the University of Washington.