Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD
Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, graduat ed from Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1968, completed a PhD in Biochemistry in 1971, and a residency in Internal Medicine. Subsequently, he was a fellow in Metabolism and then a junior faculty member at Washington University Medical School and Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. In 1974, he transferred to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he is presently a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Prior service to the boards of numerous organizations includes the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association, the Southern Section of the American Federation of Clinical Research and the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Elected positions include those of President of the Southern Section for Clinical Research, The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Texas Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association. He is currently a member of the National Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Consulting positions include the NIH, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association and the National Kidney Foundation. Editorial experience includes having served as the editor of Clinical Diabetes and editor of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. In addition, he has served as editor of the volumes on Diabetes for Endocrine and Metabolism Clinics of North America (2002) and the current volume for Medical Clinics of North America (2004).
As a charter member of the American Association for Clinical Endocrinology, he has spoken at one or more sessions of virtually every national meeting since its founding. Dr. Garber chaired the Writing Committee for the AACE/ACE Consensus Statement on Outpatient Guidelines for Glycemic Control (2002) and was the Co-Chair, as well as the Chairman, of the Writing Committee for the Consensus Development Conference on Inpatient Diabetes and Metabolic Control (2003).