Four Named to NIDDK Advisory Council

Four new members recently joined NIDDK’s advisory council.

Tracey Brown joined as a public member representative to serve on the council’s diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases subcommittee. She is chief executive officer of the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Iain Drummond joined the council’s kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases subcommittee. He is a professor and senior scientist at the MDI Biological Laboratory.

Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen joined the digestive diseases and nutrition subcommittee. She is professor of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and past president of the Obesity Society.

Dr. Gary Wu joined the digestive diseases and nutrition subcommittee. He is the Ferdinand G. Weisbrod professor of gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the university’s Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease.