Retreat Keynote Speakers

2013

Bruce Verchere, PhD 

Head, Diabetes Research Program at the Child & Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia

2015

Laura Schmidt, PhD

Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco

2016

Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD

A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, University of California San Francisco

2017

Rudolph Leibel, PhD

Director, Division of Molecular Genetics, Department of Pediatrics; Co-Director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University Medical Center

&

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

2018

Jens Brüning, MD

Director, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne; Director, Policlinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital in Cologne, Germany

&

Anders M. Näär PhD

Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

2019

Eric Verdin MD

President and Chief Executive Officer, Buck Institute for Research on Aging