David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan, MD, is an investigator for the In-Person Assessments initiative of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, leading the endocrine research of the study. Nathan is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Clinical Research Center and of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. He focuses on the development of innovative therapies to treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes and to prevent long-term complications of the disease. He was one of the architects of the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, and is an internationally recognized expert on diabetes and its complications. He was awarded the Outstanding Clinician Award by the American Diabetes Association in 2002, and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease on the occasion of its 60th anniversary in 2010. In 2015, he received the inaugural Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award by the American Diabetes Association.