Dr. Sanford Garfield : NIDDK

Dr. Sanford Garfield

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RESEARCH PROGRAMS
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 685
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-594-8803
Fax: 301-402-6271
Email: garfields@mail.nih.gov

Current Position:
Senior Advisor for Biometry & Behavioral Research

Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:

Manage Translational and SBIR/STTR portfolios.

Manage the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) cooperative

      agreement and associated support contract.

Program Director for the cooperative agreement Diabetes Science Education in Tribal

      Schools Program (DETS). 

Serve as director of the NIDDK-wide SBIR/STTR program. 

Serve as NIDDK representative and Steering Committee member of the CDC TRIAD

            study co-funded by the NIDDK


Previous Training and Experience:

Ph.D. (Biology), University of Chicago (1974)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Case Western Reserve Medical School (1973-1975)


Committees/ Working Groups:

NIDDK/DEM Clinical Cluster Working Group

NIDDK Translational Research Working Group

NIH Prevention Research Coordinating Committee

NIH Behavioral Research Coordinating Committee

DHHS Healthy People 2010 Steering Committee

Co-author of Healthy People 2010 Chapter 5 (Diabetes)

Advisory panel member to the Director of the Office

      of Behavioral and Social Science Research

Advisory Board member for the IHS supported Special Diabetes Program for Indians

NIDDK Liaison to the Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee (advisory to the IHS Director)

NIH Fingerprint Working Group member for American Indian research, prevention

            research, and education research.

Page last updated: September 01, 2007

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