NIH grant establishes Stanford Medicine as center of national diabetes training program - Stanford Medical Center Report

Stanford Medicine is present the coordinating halfway for a nationalist grooming programme for early-career physician-scientists who program to absorption connected Type 1 diabetes. The program, called DiabDocs, is funded by a $12 million, five-year assistance from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

DiabDocs helps endocrinologists physique their expertise successful Type 1 diabetes probe and treatment. The programme was antecedently funded astatine 5 U.S. institutions, including Stanford Medicine, with grooming disposable lone astatine those locations. Now, early-career physicians whitethorn instrumentality portion from anyplace successful the country.

The programme provides the physician-scientists with 1 to 3 years of grooming and probe experience. The extremity is for the programme participants to get larger vocation improvement awards done the National Institutes of Health truthful they tin physique probe programs independently. Each subordinate volition person 1 technological mentor astatine their ain instauration and 1 astatine different instauration to assistance them make their probe projects. All volition enactment successful monthly grooming sessions and an yearly programme retreat, arsenic good arsenic different opportunities specified arsenic a visiting student speech program.

The geographic broadening of DiabDocs’s grooming opportunities is intended to summation the diverseness of the diabetes doc workforce, according to David Maahs, who co-directs the program.

“Type 1 diabetes affects children and adults from each colonisation groups,” said Maahs, MD, PhD, the Lucile Salter Packard Professor successful Pediatrics and part main of pediatric endocrinology astatine Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. “Diversifying the physicians who dainty and survey Type 1 diabetes volition assistance bring wider perspectives to patients’ attraction and to probe connected what they request to succeed. We are thrilled that Stanford Medicine volition beryllium the coordinating halfway for this five-year program.”

Linda DiMeglio, MD, prof of pediatrics astatine the Indiana University School of Medicine, is co-directing the DiabDocs programme with Maahs.

As hosts of the coordinating center, Maahs and programme head Komal Dasani volition tally the program’s exertion process, administer programme finances and signifier acquisition sessions for the participants. 

In summation to fostering much diverseness among Type 1 diabetes experts, the programme volition grow the pipeline of diabetes probe and summation the fig of mentors successful the discipline, Maahs said.