Francesco Vendrame, MD, PhD, University of Miami Adult
Dr Francesco Vendrame is Associate Professor of Medicine, in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, at the University of Miami. He has interest in type 1 diabetes in the areas of quality improvement, the development of new immunotherapies and autoimmunity recurrence in pancreas transplantation. He is a well published author, and his research has been funded by the NIH. He joined the T1DX-QI in 2020 and received the 2022 T1DX-QI Outstanding Adult PI Award.
Carla Demeterco-Berggren, MD, PhD, Rady Children’s Hospital
Dr. Demeterco-Berggren MD, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. She works as a pediatric endocrinologist at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego where she serves as the Director of Quality for the Diabetes Clinic. She trained as a pediatrician and as a pediatric endocrinologist in both Brazil (Federal University of Parana) and in the US (University of California, San Diego) where she completed her Post Doctoral research in type 1 diabetes.
She has a broad background in both basic research in the field of developmental therapeutics for diabetes mellitus, improvement science and in clinical pediatric endocrinology and diabetes. As a clinician and a scientist, her primary interest is improving diabetes care delivery and access for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.