Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes was launched in 1994, with Obesity added to the title in 2007. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of endocrinology and diabetes are divided into 12 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce one of the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS David M. HarlanDavid M. HarlanDr David M. Harlan is a graduate of the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Science) and the Duke University School of Medicine, USA. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the Duke University Medical Center. This was before serving for 4 years as a staff internist at the Navy Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA. He then returned to Duke for his fellowship training in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism. In 1991 he established his laboratory at the Navy Medical Research Institute, USA, where he rose to become the Director of Combat Casualty Care. He was then appointed to the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA. In 1999, he moved his laboratory to the National Institutes of Health, where he became the Diabetes Branch Chief within the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, USA. In 2010, he moved to the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, USA, where he is the William and Doris Krupp Professor of Medicine. Dr Harlan co-directs the university's Diabetes Center of Excellence. His research interests all relate to diabetes and include the immunopathogenesis underlying type 1diabetes and improved care delivery models, including transplant-based approaches, for the disease. Dan StrejaDan StrejaDr Dan Streja is Clinical Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Section of Endocrinology, UCLA, USA. Dr Streja received his MD from the Carol Davilla School of Medicine in Bucharest, Romania. He trained in internal medicine in Canada and subsequently undertook a fellowship in Endocrinology sponsored by the Ontario Heart Foundation for studies in lipid metabolism. He taught Medicine and Physiology at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where he was also director of the diabetes clinic. He moved to the United States in 1979 and has taught at UCLA since. He is a member of the American Heart Association and of the American Diabetes Association, and he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. His main scientific interest has been in clinical research, particularly in cardiovascular prevention for patients with diabetes. He has conducted over 150 randomized trials in the field of diabetes and lipids. Dr Streja has authored chapters in five textbooks and co-authored numerous scientific publications. He has lectured in the area of lipids and cardiovascular prevention nationally, in the US, as well as internationally.