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