Dr. William Tamborlane is Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as Deputy Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center. Dr. Tamborlane currently serves on several Diabetes Advisory Boards, and he has served on the Clinical Advisory Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the National Board of Directors of the ADA and the Endocrine Advisory Board of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The focus of Dr. Tamborlane's research has been to advance the treatment of diabetes through patient-oriented research. His major accomplishments include pioneering studies in the development of insulin pump therapy, directing the Yale Center in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study, investigating diabetes-induced defects in counter-regulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia and demonstrating the role of insulin resistance in pediatric metabolic disorders. Dr. Tamborlane is the recipient of many awards including a Clinical Investigator Award from the NIH, the Mary Jane Kugel Award from the JDRF and the Charles Best Medal (to members of the DCCT) from the ADA. He recently received the 2006 Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the JDRF.

Dr. Tamborlane lectures widely on topics in diabetes and has published more than 400 original articles, book chapters and reviews in the area of diabetes and metabolic disorders. He was the Editor in Chief of the Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition, published by the Yale University Press.