Robert H. Eckel, MD, ADA President, Medicine & Science, worked with a colleague to design a training program for a new medical subspecialty to address the growing prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. The program draws on components of preventive cardiology, metabolic aspects of endocrinology, hepatology, nephrology, and lifestyle and obesity medicine.
ICYMI: ADA President, Medicine & Science, outlines plan for new cardiometabolic medicine subspecialty
