Dr. Lawrence Blonde is director of the Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit in the Section on Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and Associate Internal Medicine 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 health care delivery systems for them. He also has published and presented information about the use of computers to enhance medical education and patient care.

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). He is chair of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Doing Better Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and is the ADA representative to the ACP Subspecialty Advisory Group on Socioeconomic Affairs. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association and a former chair of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, which develops practice guidelines for the care of people with diabetes.

Dr. Blonde has served on the Microsoft Health Care Users Group Board of Directors and as a member of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He has also been a member of the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the Council of the Association of Subspecialty Professors, and the ACP Medical Informatics Subcommittee, for which he served as chair.