Dr. Molitch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1969. He did his housestaff training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his Endocrine Fellowship at UCLA-Harbor General Hospital in Los Angeles. His first faculty position was at Tufts University Medical School in Boston and he moved to Northwestern University in Chicago in 1984. At present, he is a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine.

Dr. Molitch has been active in clinical research in diabetes and other areas of endocrinology and served as the Principal Investigator for the Northwestern center of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. In the DCCT, he was chair of the Complications Committee and was a member of the Planning Committee. At present, he remains Principal Investigator of the DCCT follow-up study called “Epidemiology of Diabetes and Its Complications” (EDIC), is Principal Investigator of the Northwestern Center of the ongoing Diabetes Prevention Program Observational Study (DPPOS) and was Co-Principal Investigator of the recently completed Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) study.

Dr. Molitch has been active in the American Diabetes Association (ADA). He chaired the Professional Practice Committee that wrote the 2002 ADA”Standards of Medical Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus,” chaired the working group that wrote the ADA Position Statement “Diabetic Nephropathy,” and served as chair of the ADA’s Provider Recognition Program. He also chaired the Technical Expert Review Panel of the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance. Dr. Molitch is on the working group that wrote the KDOQI Guideline for the treatment of diabetic kidney disease prepared by the National Kidney Foundation and its pending revision.

In addition to editing eight books and journal volumes, Dr. Molitch has authored or coauthored more than 350 original papers, review articles, book chapters, case reports and other publications. For many years, Dr. Molitch was an Associate Editor of the Year Book of Endocrinology and is an Editor of the journal, “Pituitary.” In 1997, Dr. Molitch was named “Outstanding Physician Educator in the Field of Diabetes” by the American Diabetes Association. In 2006 he was elected to the Council of The Endocrine Society. He is currently Chair of the Clinical Endocrinology Update 2010 program committee of the Endocrine Society.