Diabetes Spectrum 19:38, 2006
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2006
Samuel L. Abbate, MD, CDE, is the director of the Diabetes Care Center and
Hospital Diabetes Program for Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City,
Utah. His passion is to bring quality improvement principles to the health
care system to improve clinical outcomes for people with diabetes across the
health care continuum.
Dr. Abbate earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois in
Chicago. His internal medicine residency was at the Cleveland Clinic in
Cleveland, Ohio, where he also served as chief resident before completing his
endocrinology fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. His
training in health care quality improvement includes the Advanced Training
Program in Health Care Delivery at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake
City, Utah. He has been a certified diabetes educator since 1991.
He serves on the Steering Committee and the Health Care Provider Work Group
of the National Diabetes Education Program, for which he participated in the
development of the Better Diabetes Care website
(www.betterdiabetescare.nih.gov).
He has been an active ADA volunteer since 1991 and has served on the
association's national board of directors and research foundation board and
chaired its programs committee. He is an associate editor of Diabetes
Spectrum.
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