Dr. William Tamborlane – Principal Investigator

William V. Tamborlane, MD, is Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in pediatrics before going to Yale as a post-doctoral fellow in pediatric endocrinology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors including the JDRF 2006 Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine, M.D. Excellence in Clinical Research Award, the 2009 Diabetes Technology Society’s Diabetes Technology Leadership Award, the 2010 American Diabetes Association Outstanding Physician Clinician Award  and is frequently listed in publications such as The Best Doctors in America, and America’s Top Doctors. He has served on the FDA Endocrine Advisory Board and National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He is currently on the Clinical Advisory Board of the JDRF, Co-Chair of the JDRF Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study Group and is Chair of the newly formed Pediatric Diabetes Consortium, a group of seven leading pediatric diabetes treatment centers in the U.S. who are working together to share and evaluate best practices. He served as the Steering Committee Chair of the Diabetes Research in Children’s Network (DirecNet), a NIH multicenter clinical research group for 6 years. He has published more than 500 original articles, chapters and reviews in the area of diabetes. Major accomplishments have included pioneering studies in the development of insulin-pump therapy, direction of Yale Center in the DCCT/EDIC study, investigations of diabetes-induced defects in counter-regulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia, and demonstration of the role of insulin resistance in obesity, diabetes and related pediatric metabolic disorders. Current research effort is directed at applying recent advances in insulin pump and glucose sensor technology towards the development of an artificial pancreas. He leads a multidisciplinary team of physicians, diabetes nurse educators, dieticians and social workers that care for more than 1000 children, adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes. Dr. Tamborlane is the Program Director of the Yale Pediatric Diabetes Post-doctoral fellowship (T32) program that is helping to train the next generation of young pediatric diabetes clinicians and investigators. He is also the principal investigator for Fair Haven Community Health Center’s Donaghue Foundation-funded Diabetes Prevention Program.

The Players

Photo by Gale Zucker

Anne Camp, MD.

Title: FHCHC Diabetes Program Director

Role in Project: Co-Investigator / FHCHC Diabetes Program Director

As Director of FHCHC’s Diabetes Program and diabetes prevention program, Dr. Camp oversees program development, implementation, data management, dissemination, and evaluation activities.

Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Dr. Camp is a practicing doctor at FHCHC, providing diabetes consultation and primary care for 17 years. She leads quality improvement work for prevention, diabetes and chronic disease and has developed and operationalized FHCHC’s large patient registry to monitor and measure outcomes for these efforts. For four years, she was a member of the HRSA and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Health Disparities Collaborative Diabetes Planning Group and Faculty which has led over 500 Health Centers in improving diabetes care for over 330,000 of the nation’s highest risk patients. Following this she served as the diabetes expert on HRSA’s National Quality Faculty.

 

 

Elizabeth Magenheimer, FNP, CNM.

As the project’s Family Services Director, Ms. Magenheimer is an Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APRN) and bi-lingual Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), with 30 years experience working with FHCHC’s diverse patient population. She leads program development for school-based interventions, fosters community collaborations, works closely to link family members with risk factors for diabetes, and provides diabetes care and education.

Mari Montosa.

Mari coordinates DPP individual and family identification, recruitment, participation and follow up, including support for family lifestyle changes. She develops and implements sustainable group diabetes screening and education sessions in English and Spanish, and is responsible for individual and program data collection. “I choose to work with the DPP because I want to help prevent diabetes. I want patients to make lifestyle changes to be a form of support to them and their families. Lastly, I want to help prove that exercise and lifestyle changes do help to prevent diabetes.”

Eva Gonzalez

Eva is the DPP Coordinator & Research Assistant. She chose this particular program because she wants to, “assist in beating this disease for all our patients.” She enjoys the outcomes and the gratification that comes with them from watching the patients changing their lives, and the lives of their family members, for the better.

Photo by Thomas MacMillan

Rebecca Kline, MPA

Rebecca graduated from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA) with a Masters in Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy. There, she focused agriculture and sustainable development. Before gaining her Masters degree, Rebecca worked for Sarah Lawrence College’s Community Partnerships office, running national and international experiential learning social justice programs for undergraduate students. Later Rebecca worked as a Deshpande Foundation Fellow in rural India, creating and delivering intensive 3-day Professional Development Workshops for over 100 BAIF NGO staff members, each of whom worked with a minimum of 300 small farmers each. As the Communications Manager for the Fair Haven Community Health Center’s Diabetes Prevention Program, Rebecca is responsible for capturing and packaging the program so that other community health clinics worldwide can replicate it. She also runs the program’s community garden component. When not working, Rebecca surfs, dreams about surfing, and plays Capoeira.