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Free - Diabetes Diagnosis & Management 2010

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Use of Insulin in the Hospital: Difficult Cases

Track : Diabetes Diagnosis and Management Workshop

Program Code: 370-8

Date: Friday, June 18, 2010

Time: 4:40 PM to 5:20 PM EST

SPEAKER :

Irl B. Hirsch, MD, Univ of Washington Med Ctr
Disclosure:Irl B. Hirsch, MD, has received research grant support from Novo Nordisk and MannKind; has received consultant fees from Bayer, Roche, Johnson & Johnson and Abbott.

Dr. Hirsch is a professor of medicine and holds the Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Dr. Hirsch went to medical school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, completed his residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, FL, and trained as a research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Hirsch has been interested in new technologies for the treatment of diabetes, particularly those involved in the use of insulin therapy. He has also been interested in the mechanisms of how insulin co-modulates inflammation with glucose and how this results in improvements in outcomes, particularly of hospitalized patients. The management of hyperglycemia in the hospital has been an interest of Dr. Hirsch for over 25 years. He has been involved in numerous major clinical research trials, including the DCCT, ACCORD, STAR-1, JDRF Sensor Trial, SEARCH, ORIGIN, ADAG, and many more particularly involved with insulin therapy. He is interested in the use of computers in diabetes data management, and how pattern recognition can be used to improve diabetes control, in addition to how glycemic variability noted on glucose meter downloads may be an independent risk for microvascular complications. He has a very active clinical practice of which 80% of patients have type 1 diabetes. He has authored over 100 papers including a review of insulin in the New England Journal of Medicine, 40 editorials, numerous book chapters, and four books both for patients and physicians. He is the past editor-in-chief of DOC News and Clinical Diabetes. He is the formal chair the Professional Practice Committee for the American Diabetes Association and served as a member of the Endocrine Section of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

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