Dr. Vanita R. Aroda is the director of Diabetes Clinical Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and faculty of Harvard Medical School. She has written on diabetes prevention and novel therapeutics in diabetes and weight management. Dr. Aroda has years of experience in clinical trial conduct and leadership, has served as an investigator on the National Institutes of Health-funded GRADE, D2d, and DPPOS studies, and as the national or international signatory principal investigator for several phase 3 clinical trials.