Daniel Einhorn

Dr. Daniel Einhorn is medical director of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, clinical professor of medicine (voluntary) at UC San Diego, president of Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, and associate editor of the Journal of Diabetes. He is a trustee and past-president of the American College of Endocrinology (ACE), a founding member and regent of the ACE Foundation, and past-president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). He received his BA at Yale (Summa cum Laude), his MD at Tufts (AOA) and his post-graduate training at Harvard. He has been in a leadership position in endocrinology for over 20 years during which time he has had the privilege of co-writing many national guidelines, including those for diabetes, pre-diabetes, inpatient diabetes management, and obesity, as well as leading consensus conferences on insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, obesity, and glucose monitoring. He has won the highest awards from AACE, ACE, and the Endocrine Society as well as numerous other honors. He has been on hundreds of teaching programs, written dozens of papers and chapters on diabetes, served on many dozens of scientific advisory committees, and has participated in clinical research on virtually all classes of diabetes therapies and diagnostics. He continues to be a practicing physician who loves seeing patients and their families and who appreciates the real world education he gets from them every day.