Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

Dr. Tamborlane has been Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine since 1985 and he has received many of many awards and honors including the 2006 and 2011 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Excellence in Clinical Research Awards, 2009 Diabetes Technology Society's Diabetes Technology Leadership Award, 2010 American Diabetes Association Outstanding Physician Clinician Award, 2011 SCTS Career Achievement Award,  2014 ISPAD Prize for Achievement and the 2017 American Diabetes Association Award for Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research. The prime focus of his work has been on patient-oriented research in pediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) and related metabolic and endocrine disorders. The hallmark of this research has been to overcome met^1,000 original articles, chapters and reviews are related to clinical and translational studies in diabetes. As Chair of the Diabetes Research in Children's Network, Co-Chair of the JDRF CGM Study Group, and Vice Chair of the T1D Exchange Registry, he has been actively involved in studies related to Continuous Glucose Monitoring and other advanced diabetes technologies, as well as in the successful completion of randomized clinical trials of new drugs for adolescents with type 2 diabetes.  Tamborlane has also devoted a great deal of effort over the past 45 years in mentoring the training and career development of pediatric physician scientists; many of whom have had distinguished careers in diabetes research and made important contributions to this textbook. 

Introduction.- Pathophysiology of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Types.- Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes.- Initial Management of Youth with Type 1 Diabetes.- Insulin Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes.- Insulin Pump Therapy.- Glucose Monitoring.- Automated Insulin Delivery.- Medical Nutritional Therapy.- Acute Diabetes Complications.- Sick Day Management.- Screening for Co-morbidities and Complications of Type 1 Diabetes.- Adjunctive Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes.- Exercise and Diabetes.- Psychosocial Challenges of Diabetes.- Managing Type 1 Diabetes: A Young Patient's View.- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Association with Pediatric Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.- Current Treatment of Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes.- The Yale Bright Bodies Lifestyle Intervention Program: An Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Obese Children and Adolescents with and without Type 2 Diabetes.- Appendix: The FamilyGuide to the Yale Children's Diabetes Program.