Dr. Judith E. Fradkin is Director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

In her 27-year career at NIDDK, Dr. Fradkin has created or directed a diverse array of high-impact clinical and basic research programs including multi-centered clinical trials to evaluate new approaches to prevent and treat diabetes and its complications, scientific consortia to define the genetic and environmental triggers of diabetes, and diabetes research centers.  She came to NIDDK as a clinical associate in 1979 after an endocrinology fellowship at Yale University.  She graduated from Harvard College, earned her M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco in 1975, and completed an internship and residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.  In addition to her oversight of major biomedical research programs, she serves as an endocrinology consultant at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Fradkin is the 2003 recipient of the American Medical Association’s
Dr. Nathan Davis Award for outstanding public service in the advancement of public health.