The pioneering Joslin team approach to care emphasizes the collaboration of many skilled professionals to ensure the best result for adults and children with diabetes. Care emphasizes preventing or managing the multiple effects of the disease.
Team members work with patients, families and private physicians to develop a personal plan of treatment to meet a patient's unique needs.
Director
Thomas
W. Donner, M.D.,
Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Joslin Diabetes Center
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
M.D.. -- University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency -- University of Maryland School of Medicine/Baltimore's V.A.
Medical Center, Internal Medicine (Chief Resident)
Fellowship -- University of Maryland School of Medicine/Baltimore's V.A.
Medical Center, Endocrinology
Areas of Special Interest
-- Metabolic effects of D-Tagatose, a D-hexose, new treatments for Type
2 diabetes, prevention of post-transplantation osteoporosis. Investigator
for EDIC study, "Epidemiology of Diabetes Intervention and Complications."
Endocrinology
Alan
R. Shuldiner, M.D.
John Whitehurst Professor of Medicine; Head, Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes, and Nutrition; Director, Program in Genetics and Genomic Medicine
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
and Metabolism
M.D. -- Harvard School of Medicine
Residency -- Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, Internal Medicine
Fellowship -- Medical and Senior Staff Fellow: Diabetes Branch,
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
Previous Academic Appointment -- Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; and member of the graduate faculty
in Molecular and Cellular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Areas of Special Interest -- Genetics
of Type 2 diabetes, including insulin resistance and Obesity
Kristi
D. Silver, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Medical Director, Joslin Diabetes
Center
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Endocrinology,
Diabetes and Metabolism
M.D. -- University of Maryland School of Medicine
Residency -- University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Internal
Medicine
Fellowship -- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Endocrinology
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship -- Johns Hopkins University
Areas
of Special Interest -- Pancreatic growth factors; pancreatic
growth and development; Type 1 diabetes
Mary Sheehan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and
Metabolism
M.D. -- New York Medical College
Residency -- Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, Internal
Medicine
Fellowship -- Stonybrook University
Areas of Special Interest -- Gestational diabetes, noninvasive
glucose monitoring
Nanette
Steinle, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
M.D.. -- Medical College of Ohio
Residency --University of Maryland Medical System, Internal Medicine
Fellowship -- University of Maryland Medical System, Endocrinology, Diabetes
and Nutrition
Areas of Special Interest -- Nutrition, genetics
of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, eating behavior
Elizabeth
A. Streeten, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Board Certification -- Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics, Endocrinology
M.D.. -- Albany Medical College
Residency -- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medicine
Fellowship -- NIDDK, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
Areas of Special Interest -- Insulin
pump therapy, management of Type 2 diabetes
Pediatric Endocrinology
Debra
R. Counts, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Head, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
Board Certification -- Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
M.D. -- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency -- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Pediatrics
Fellowship -- Children's Hospital of St. Louis, Pediatric Endocrinology;
Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, NIH
Areas of Special Interest -- Principal
investigator for epidemiology of diabetes complications and intervention
trial, diabetes prevention trial
Malinda
Duke, C.P.N.P.
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Board Certification -- Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
Nursing Degree -- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Maryland;
Master of Science in Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Post Masters Ceritification,
Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Special Interest --
Adolescents with Diabetes
Diabetes Educator Coordinators
Michelle C. Sheldon-Rubio, R.N., B.S.N., C.D.E
Catherine DiBlasi, R.D., R.N., B.S.N., C.D.E.
Additional members of the Joslin team include exercise physiologists, physical therapists, social workers and nurse practitioners.
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