George S. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, is currently the Executive Director of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Immunology at the University of Colorado Denver. He was the past president (2006) of the Clinical Immunology Society. His major area of research is the prediction and prevention of type 1 diabetes and related autoimmune disorders.  Dr. Eisenbarth has received numerous awards for his work including most recently the Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier Prize in Biomedicine, the Donald...