Lawrence Blonde, M.D., FACP, FACE
Lawrence Blonde, M.D., FACP, FACE, is director of the Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit in the Section on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Associate Residency Program Director in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dr. Blonde’s clinical and research activities have focused on patients with diabetes mellitus and investigations of new therapies and healthcare delivery systems for them. He has also published and presented information about the use of computers to enhance medical education and patient care.
Dr. Blonde is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). He has chaired the AACE Electronic Medical Records Task Force and was the co-chair for the AACE Consensus Conference for the Implementation of Outpatient Management of Diabetes Mellitus. Dr. Blonde is a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Operations Committee of the National Diabetes Education Program, representing the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is chair of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Doing Better Committee.
Dr. Blonde is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council for the Advancement of Diabetes Research and Education (CADRE) and is a member of the National Quality Forum Adult Diabetes Care Consensus Maintenance Committee. Dr. Blonde is a former member of the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association and is a current member and former chair of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, which develops practice guidelines for the care of people with diabetes.