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John B. Buse, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Endocrinology; director, Diabetes Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Phyllisa Deroze, diabetes patient advocate; blogger at diagnosednotdefeated.com; founder of Black Diabetic Info.
Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, chief science & medical officer, American Diabetes Association, Arlington, VA.
Ricardo Correa, MD, program director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California San Diego; president, The Behavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego.
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, professor of medicine, University of California San Francisco; associate director, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco.
Kellie Rodriguez, RN, CDCES, president-elect, Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists, Chicago.
Sandra Arevalo Valencia, RDN, CDE, director of community and patient education, Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Nyack, NY.
Anne Peters, MD, professor of medicine and director, USC Clinical Diabetes Programs, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles.
Reviewed by Michael Dansinger, MD on January 28, 2023
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