Deborah J. Wexler
Chief, Mgh Diabetes Unit @Massachusetts General Hospital
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WORK HISTORY
Chief, Mgh Diabetes Unit @Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, US
EDUCATION
Harvard University
Social Studies
University of Oxford
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Social and Economic History, History of Medicine, Marshall Scholar
Yale School of Medicine
MD
ABOUT DEBORAH J. WEXLER
Deborah J. Wexler, MD, MSc, is Chief of the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and completed her internship, residency, chief residency, and fellowship in endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital.Dr. Wexler’s research interests focus on optimizing the care of people with type 2 diabetes. She is the MGH site principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness (GRADE) Trial. She has led the implementation of innovative diabetes care models across a primary care network and has helped translate lifestyle and behavioral approaches to improving diabetes self-management into usual care settings. She was multiple PI on the NIDDK-funded REAL HEALTH-Diabetes study which evaluated the effectiveness of a lifestyle change intervention in community health centers. She is a leader of the pragmatic PCORI-funded PRECIDENTD trial, comparing the effectiveness SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists for prevention of cardiac and kidney outcomes. She is on the editorial board of Diabetes Care and is a reviewer for multiple journals.
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