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Prof. Juliana Chan Honoured by American Diabetes Association

Prof. Juliana Chan (left) of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics received American Diabetes Association’s 2019 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes. The award presentation ceremony took place on 10 June in San Francisco.

During her career spanning more than three decades, Professor Chan has established large patient cohorts, biobanks and databases to define the causes and consequences of people with diabetes in Asia. She has systemically confirmed the benefits of a team-based structured care approach to reducing clinical events and mortality in people with diabetes. She also developed the innovative, 11-country Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) programme to gather data and issue personalized reports to empower individual patients and reduce clinical inertia.

Professor Chan has published more than 500 papers and 20 book chapters, trained hundreds of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and has established institutes, laboratories and diabetes centres to generate and translate evidence to practice through public-private partnerships. Her efforts to ensure progress in the fight against diabetes has improved millions of lives in Asia and worldwide.

This article was originally published in No. 540, Newsletter in Jun 2019.