2025 PRESENTER PROFILES
Heterogeneity of Diabetes—New Initiatives from NIDDK
Monday, June 23, at 3:15 p.m. CT
Room W186 A-C • McCormick Place Convention Center
Heterogeneity, Lifestyle and Behavior, and Interventions
Michael Bancks, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
What is your presentation about?
We know that lifestyle interventions are successful for prevention of type 2 diabetes and for prevention of some diabetes complications. However, the benefit from a respective lifestyle intervention for preventing a given outcome is not the same for everyone. My work and others’ work have investigated and helped describe for which outcomes and for which clinical subpopulations lifestyle interventions may be more or less effective.
How do you hope your presentation will impact diabetes research or care?
There is an overwhelming amount of findings from observational studies and lifestyle interventions that have described heterogeneity in the development or prevention of type 2 diabetes and its related complications. I hope to help provide a summary of the major findings and identify areas in research and care that are promising for further development to understand drivers of this heterogeneity and more efficiently and effectively prevent type 2 diabetes and its complications.
How did you become involved with this area of diabetes research or care?
During my pre- and post-doctoral training, my research focused on the epidemiology of various type 2 diabetes complications (cardiovascular and cognitive) in observational cohorts. When I transitioned to Wake Forest, I expanded my research to include lifestyle and therapeutic interventions, and to better understand whether interventions are better at preventing certain type 2 diabetes-related outcomes and/or for certain clinical populations.
