Primary Job Title Scientific Advisors Primary Organization 
MannKind
Location Brisbane, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jay Skyler currently serves as a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychology in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, where he has also held a number of key leadership roles in the clinical and drug development setting. He has played a key global
leadership role in advancing the science and treatments of diabetes over the last five decades, where his own research has also focused on improving the care of type 1 diabetes through meticulous glycemic control, psychosocial and behavioral support and immune intervention. From 1993 until 2015, he was Chairman of the National Institute of Health-sponsored Diabetes Prevention Trial - Type 1 (DPT-1) and its successor Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, a nationwide network conducting clinical trials to interdict type 1 diabetes. Jay Skyler has also held many positions at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), including President and member of the Board of Directors. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Care (an ADA publication), founding Scientific Editor of the International Diabetes Monitor, and currently is Senior Editor of Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. He has served on the Board of Directors for multiple private and public companies including MiniMed, Amylin, Dexcom, Inc. DXCM and Moerae Matrix, Jay Skyler has been author, editor, or co-editor of 21 books and has written nearly 500 articles. Jay Skyler is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College, and did his postgraduate training in internal medicine and in endocrinology & metabolism at Duke University Medical Center.
