William V. Tamborlane, M.D.

William Tamborlane is Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine, Co-Chair of the JDRF Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study Group, and Chair of the national Pediatric Diabetes Consortium. In addition, he serves as Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. He is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in pediatrics before going to Yale as a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric endocrinology. Dr. Tamborlane’s scientific accomplishments over the past 30 years have established his international reputation as one of the most highly regarded clinical scientists in childhood diabetes and related disorders. Major accomplishments have included pioneering studies in the development of insulin pump therapy, direction of the Yale Center in the DCCT/EDIC study, investigations of diabetes-induced defects in counter-regulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia, and demonstration of the role of insulin resistance in pediatric metabolic disorders. In 2006, the JDRF honored him with the Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in Type 1 Diabetes. He is a member of the Clinical Advisory Board of the JDRFl.