Diabetes Spectrum
21:74
2008
DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.21.2.74
© 2008 by the American Diabetes Association
Irl B. Hirsch, MD, is a professor of medicine and holds the Diabetes
Treatment and Teaching Chair at the University of Washington School of
Medicine in Seattle. He is also the medical director of the Diabetes Care
Center at the University of Washington Medical Center and the 2004 recipient
of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Outstanding Physician Clinician in
Diabetes Care award.
Dr. Hirsch has long been interested in new technologies for the treatment
of diabetes, particularly those involved in the use of insulin therapy. He is
also interested in better use of blood glucose meters with downloading, use of
the Internet to improve diabetes care, and best practices for insulin pump
therapy. More recently, he has been involved in key studies about the use of
continuous glucose monitoring.
His classic review of insulin analogs, published in the New England
Journal of Medicine, is among numerous articles and publications he has
written or edited on cutting-edge diabetes technology. Dr. Hirsch is also a
past editor of the ADA journals Clinical Diabetes and DOC
News and has served on the ADA Board of Directors and in many national
committee leadership positions for the association.
A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Dr. Hirsch
completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Miami and Mt.
Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., and his endocrinology fellowship at
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
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