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Clark
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The American Diabetes Association has selected Dr. Charles M. Clark Jr. as its 2003 Josiah K. Lilly Distinguished Service Award honoree. The award is given each year to an individual, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the lives of persons with diabetes mellitus.
Recently retired as professor of medicine and pharmacology at the IU School of Medicine, Clark is now serving as associate dean for continuing medical education. He was director of the IU Diabetes Research and Training Center from 1977-2002, and co-director of the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care from 1993-1997. Internationally recognized in diabetes research and patient care, he has worked with the under-served to design and implement ways to improve care for minority populations.
Clark was president of the American Diabetes Association in 1988-1989, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, the ADA’s leading clinical diabetes scientific journal, from 1996-2001, and was founding chairman of the National Diabetes Education Program. He was the recipient of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1999.
The J. K. Lilly Award will be presented at festivities Nov. 1 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis.
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