Medicine Grand Rounds, M. Sue Kirkman, MD, “Prediabetes: What’s All the Fuss?

M. Sue Kirkman, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of North Carolina and Medical Director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center’s Clinical Trials Unit. She is site principal investigator of several clinical trials including the NIDDK-funded GRADE study, for which she also serves as co-chair of the Outcomes Committee. She is also co-PI of a CDC-funded grant to better distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes in adults, using EHR and survey data. In January 2018, Dr. Kirkman became chair of the National Diabetes Education Program, a joint initiative of NIDDK and the CDC.

From 2007-2012, Dr. Kirkman was Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at the American Diabetes Association, where her responsibilities included oversight of the ADA’s clinical practice recommendations. Before joining the American Diabetes Association, Dr. Kirkman was on the faculty at Indiana University for 13 years, and began her academic career as a faculty member at Duke University for 5 years. At Duke and Indiana University, she was an active clinician-educator, an investigator in many trials of therapies for diabetes and its complications, and a member of multi-site study groups including the VA Implantable Pump Study, the VA Diabetes Trial, and the Diabetes Prevention Program.

Dr. Kirkman received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Utah and in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Duke University.