Dr. Robert E. Ratner is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical School and Senior Research Scientist at the MedStar Research Institute in metropolitan Washington, DC. He recently completed a sabbatical as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, having served as the study director for the IOM Comparative Effectiveness Research Priorities Committee, and a program examiner for health reform in the Health Division of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. He received his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas where he also completed his Internal Medicine training. He underwent fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Harvard Medical School and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. He recently completed 6 years service on the Steering Committee of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), representing the American Diabetes Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Education and the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and is Past-President of the Washington Area Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association. He has served as the Chair of the Government Relations Committee and the Pregnancy Council of the American Diabetes Association.
He is a Principle Investigator for the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and DPP Outcomes Study of the NIH and serves on the Planning and Steering Committees for the project nationwide. He chairs the Cardiovascular Working Group, the Outcomes Adjudication Committee and co-chairs the Economic Analysis Committee of the DPP. As a full-time faculty member at Georgetown University, he currently serves on the University Research Committee, co-chairs the Joint Oversight Committee for Clinical Research, and is a member of the GCRC Advisory Committee.
He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. His research interests include diabetes therapeutics and complications, with an emphasis on translational efforts from controlled trials into community-based practice. He is the author of over 110 original scientific articles and 20 book chapters. |
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