world diabetes day 2021

Dr. Bill Polonsky is President of Behavioral Diabetes Institute. He  is Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the University of   California San Diego. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from   Yale University and has served as Senior Psychologist at the Joslin   Diabetes Center in Boston, faculty member at Harvard Medical School and   Chairman of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators. 

Victor Garber,   award-winning actor has lived with type 1 diabetes for close to 60   years. He was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 12 in 1962. Victor  is also a member of Beyond Type 1’s leadership council, and works to raise awareness and funds for diabetes research. Victor is also an advocate for Tidepool and  shares his experience with DIY Loop, his vision for the future of   diabetes technology, and his hope that together, he can help to pave it forward. 

Dr. Irl B. Hirsch is professor and Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. 

Dr.   Hirsch received his medical degree from the University of Missouri   School of Medicine in 1984. He completed residency training in internal   medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and Miami Beach,   Florida. Dr. Hirsch also was fellowship-trained in endocrinology and   metabolism at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. 

Dr. Jonathan Lakey has had a long interest and research direction in  cell and tissue transplantation with a focus on diabetes and islet  transplantation. Dr. Lakey graduated from the University of Alberta  (BSc, MSc, Ph.D.)  and received post-post-doctoral training in  Indianapolis and Seattle  before returning to establish his research  program at the University of  Alberta. Dr. Lakey was also the Director of  the Comprehensive Tissue  Bank. .