Current Activities of Foundation:
2010 – Ongoing
Weekly educational series to educate clinical staff, health services research products in practice setting.
2010 – Ongoing
Development of electronic registry to support activities of foundation to improve clinical care.
2001 – 2010
AMA funded project – Use of electronic medical record to improve adherence to performance measures in adult diabetes care.
1993 - 2010:
Principal Investigator - “Health Outcomes Study on the Effect of Intensive Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus in Type I and Type II Diabetes”
Past Activities of Foundation:
Educational series to provide CME credit to physicians for participating in patient safety and quality of care programs.
- Patient Safety & Communication Issues in Healthcare, April 30, 2009
- IIRS 2007 Review, October 15, 2007
- America’s Girth Grows as Height Stagnates, August 9, 2007
- Drug Safety – Avandia, August 8, 2007
- CME course on Patient Safety & Quality, October 30, 2006
- CME course on Patient Safety & Quality, August 16, 2006
Medtronic/MiniMed Technologies
1990 - 2007: Principal Investigator
Minimed Implantable Infusion System - Protocol 302, 309, & 310
Abbott Diabetes Care Protocol ADC06072
2006 – 2007: Principal Investigator
User Evaluation of the FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System; a multi-center U.S. trial.
REACH (REducation of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health) Registry
2004 – 2006
International prospective observational registry in subjects at risk for atherothrombotic events.
Aventis Protocol HMR1964A3502 – Apidra 3502
2004 – 2005: Principal Investigator
Apidra (insulin glulisine) administered in a fixed bolus regimen vs.
variable bolus regimen based on carbohydrate counting in adult subjects
with type 2 Diabetes receiving Lantus (insulin glargine) as basal insulin: a
multicenter, randomized, parallel, open label clinical study
Pfizer Protocol A2171017 – Inhaled Insulin
2004 – 2005: Principal Investigator
A phase III multi-center U.S. trial on the efficacy of inhaled insulin.
Hellman R, Kilo C, Guthrie R, Hiar CE, et al. “An Immunologic Method for the Measurement of Hemoglobin A1C.” A multicenter field trial of a new instrument designed by Miles Laboratory, 1990-1991. Published in Diabetes Care, November 1992
Novo-Nordisk, Collaborative Multicenter Study on Disposable Insulin Pens, 1992