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Bernard Zinman, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, Receives American Diabetes Association's Distinguished Achievement Award

Posted on: Monday, 12 June 2006, 18:00 CDT

WASHINGTON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA), the nation's leading voluntary health organization in the fight against diabetes, announced today that Bernard Zinman, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, received the Association's prestigious Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award at the organization's 66th Scientific Sessions, which runs through June 13.

The Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award was established to stimulate, acknowledge and reward outstanding physician clinicians in the field of diabetes.

"On behalf of the American Diabetes Association, we are delighted to present this prestigious award to Dr. Bernard Zinman," said Robert A. Rizza, MD, President, Medicine & Science, of the American Diabetes Association. "His research of long-term complications of diabetes mellitus, as well as the development of new therapies for type 1 and type 2 diabetes directly support ADA's mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people living with diabetes."

Bernard Zinman is Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes and holds the Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes Research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Zinman is the Principal Investigator of the University of Toronto Centre for the DCCT/EDIC (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications) study.

Dr. Zinman graduated MDCM from McGill University in Montreal, where he also received his postgraduate training in internal medicine. He undertook further training at the University of Toronto in Endocrinology.

Dr. Zinman has authored more than 300 publications in national and international journals, and over 60 book chapters and editorials. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes (awarded to the DCCT Investigators), the Alois Beringer Lecture Award, the Frederick G. Banting Award and the Gerald S. Wong Service Award of the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA).

More than 15,000 top scientists, physicians and other health care professionals from around the world shared cutting-edge research, treatment recommendations and advances toward a cure for diabetes at the Association's 66th Scientific Sessions in Washington, DC.

Diabetes is a serious disease that affects the body's ability to produce or respond properly to insulin, a hormone that allows blood sugar to enter the cells of the body and be used for energy. Nearly 21 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes. And, an additional 41 million have pre-diabetes. Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death by disease in the United States and it has no cure.

The American Diabetes Association is the nation's premier voluntary health organization supporting diabetes research, information and advocacy. The Association's mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Founded in 1940, the Association provides services to hundreds of communities across the country. For more information please call the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342- 2383) or visit http://www.diabetes.org/. Information from both these sources is available in English and Spanish.

American Diabetes Association

CONTACT: Sarah Bradley of the American Diabetes Association,+1-703-549-1500 ext. 2231

Web site: http://www.diabetes.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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