Organization Section The following were elected to the Professional Section as of September 1988: Mohammed N. Abdullah, MD, New Orleans, LA Betty M. Covarrubias, RN, BSN, Tampa, FL N. Adamafio, PhD, Ann Arbor, Ml Judith Creba, PhD, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK Thomas C. Ahn, MD, Los Angeles, CA Frank DeStefano, MD, Atlanta, CA Amelia Amaro, MD, Mexico Sherin Devaskar, MD, St. Louis, MO Judy A. Anderson, RN, Detroit, Ml Jay E. Diamond, St. Louis, MO Michelle Atkins, Phoenix, AZ James Jay Doherty, III, Montreal, Quebec, Canada John A. Baima, Rockville, MD L. L. Dotto, PhD, Roxboro, Quebec, Canada Mary Zoe Baker, MD, Oklahoma City, OK Cyndi Drake, West Palm Beach, FL Randall Ball, Phoenix, AZ Heinz Drexel, MD, Innsbruck, Austria L. J. Baylis, DPM, Oakmont, PA Patrick Driscoll, PhD, Bedford, MA Gerald W. Bean, San Antonio, TX Michael Stephen Drohsky, BS, Philadelphia, PA Albert Berenstein, DPM, West Nyack, NY Homer J. Dupuy, III, New Orleans, LA Randy H. Bernstein, DPM, Southfield, Ml Steve L. Durfee, PhD, Denver, CO Tarek Bisat, MD, Macon, CA Mary W. Edge, RN, St. Simons Island, CA Jennifer Blair, RN, PHN, MPH, Rapid City, SD Jean-Marie Ekoe, MD, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada Deanna Bland, RN, BS, CDE, Tucson, AZ Imad El-Kebbi, MD, Atlanta, CA Lois Bonner, RN, Riverside, CA A. Frances Elliott, West Chester, PA Raymond E. Bourey, MD, St. Louis, MO Patricia D. Elliott, San Diego, CA Ronald Brown, MD, Oklahoma City, OK Jeffrey W. Ellis, MD, Oakbrook Terrace, IL MelanieJ. Brunt, MD, Brookline, MA Wayne A. Evron, MD, Pittsburgh, PA Vivian Ann Burriss, RN, CDE, Charlotte, NC Charles Ellis Fisher, MD, Los Angeles, CA Karsten Buschard, MD, Copenhagen, Denmark Mollie H. Fitzgerald, New York, NY David Camp, Austin, TX Paul J. Flakoll, PhD, Nashville, TN Patricia Cane, PhD, Sylmar, CA Diana Ford, St. Petersburg, FL Maria Carosa, Cherry Hill, NJ Diane Fowler, RN, Lake Charles, LA Paula L. Centruelli, Somerville, NJ Julia A. Fruth, Columbia, MO Christine P. Chan, PhD, East Hanover, NJ David A. Fryburg, MD, Hamden, CT Sioksoan Chan-Cua, MD, San Diego, CA Carmen Fuscaldo, MD, San Jos6, Costa Rica Brett Charlton, PhD, Sydney, NSW, Australia Galimberti Gabriella, MD, Milan, Italy Jyoti Chattopaohyay, PhD, Austin, MN John Patrick Calgam, Jr., MD, St. Louis, MO Elizabeth Choate, RD, Mayfield, KY Alfredo Garcia, MD, Haringen, TX Teresa Choate, RN, CDE, Bethesda, MD Juan M. Garles, MD, Coral Gables, FL David W. Clough, PhD, Chicago, IL Susan Gibson, Dorval, Quebec, Canada Bocile Fay Cole, RN, Marrero, LA Alan Paul Glombicki, MD, Houston, TX Joanne Conlin-Kurylas, RN, Northport, NY Ssoeholm Goesta, Ereroe, Sweden Silvia Corvera, MD, Philadelphia, PA Jack Goldstein, Los Angeles, CA Anne Costis, RN, Norfolk, VA Steven Goldstein, PhD, Atlanta, CA Sherie Courchaine, Cwinn, Ml Carsten F. Gotfredsen, MSc, DrSc, Bagsvaerd, Denmark DIABETES CARE, VOL. 11, NO. 10, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1988 ORGANIZATION SECTION Karen M. Goya, MT, Glendale, CA Egbert Miranda, MD, Jefferson, LA Mate Granic', MD, PhD, Zagreb, Yugoslavia Reeta Misra, MD, Nashville, TN Jerry Grass, Nashville, TN John A. Moorhouse, MD, MSc, FRCP, FACP, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mirjana Gulan, MD, Kirchewes, Ontario, Canada Canada Mark Gutniak, MD, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden Juz Marina Morales, RD, MSc, Maracaibo, Venezuela Judith Lynn Hamet, Plantation, FL James Morter, PhD, St. Louis, MO Chip John Hamilton Reed, MD, Atlanta, GA Larry Gene Moss, MD, San Francisco, CA Nancy Harris, RD, Greenville, NC Neal A. Mozen, DPM, Southfield, Ml Celeste B. Hart, MD, Washington, DC Penny S. Murphy, RD, LD, CDE, San Antonio, TX Carol R. Havdel, Laplace, LA Kenichiro Nakao, Yokohama, Japan Terri Hensley, RN, Pembroke Pines, FL Beth Nardacci, RN, MS, CDE, Albany, NY Emily Holing, RN, Bellevue, WA Joseph Newman, Colorado Springs, CO Jane T. Horton-Marcella, MD, Lexington, KY Robert A. Noonan, PhD, Alameda, CA Kinga Howorka, MD, Vienna, Austria Nursing Wellness Center, Tucson, AZ Gesnot Huber, Vienna, Austria Olutoyin A. Okundren, RD, Memphis, TN Ann Hurley, Brookline, MA Caroline S. Pace, PhD, Birmingham, AL Schail Inam, MRCP, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Giovanni Pacini, Padua, Italy Judith lobst, RN, Emmanus, PA Harry Palter, MD, Willoceaalt, Ontario, Canada Jun Ishii, MD, PhD, Irumagun, Saitama, Japan Mavrizio Para, PhD, Padua, Italy Rozmin Jamal, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Josef R. Patsch, MD, Innsbruck, Austria Jan Trost Jorgensen, MSc, Gentofte, Denmark Susan Patton, RN, Birmingham, Ml Joni K. Kalis, Tucson, AZ Federico Perosa, MD, Valhalla, NY Huldrick Kamner, MD, Portland, OR Lee H.C. Philip, Central Hong Kong, China Matthew S. Kane, MD, Philadelphia, PA Karen Phillips, RN, Lima, OH Kory M. Kazarian, BS, San Antonio, TX Richard E. Pratley, MD, Baltimore, MD Lynda Kendall, RN, MSN, Great Falls, MT W. Ben Prewitt, Lexington, KY James J. Klocek, BS, Philadelphia, PA Michelle A. Proulx, RN, CDE, St. Paul, MN Jane M. Korducki, MD, Rochester, MN Jesus F. Qualle, MD, Monterrey, Mexico Robert L. Kroc, PhD, Santa Barbara, CA Rafael Real, MD, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico Jane Ann Kuehl, Houston, TX Pamela Reeves, Miami Shores, FL Daniel A. Lang, MD, Chicago, IL Alice Ring, MD, MPH, Atlanta, GA Mary Ellen Langone-Lackaye, RN, New York, NY Connie Rockhill, Mankato, MN Maria LaRosa, Cherry Hill, NJ Ignacio Rangel Rodriguez, MD, Monterrey, Mexico Rosalie A. LaVon, MD, Norman, OK Lydia Rodriguez, MD, Rio Piedras, PR Kevin Lawlor, Drexel Hill, PA Ricardo Antonucci Roggero, MD, PCIA Buenos Aires, Argentina David E. Lebwohl, MD, New York, NY Arnold Rosenberg, DMD, Yardley, PA Charlotte Lee, RN, CDE, Birmingham, AL Sidney Rosenblatt, MD, Newport Beach, CA Sarah A. Lee, RN, BSN, Trussville, AL Carlo M. Rotella, MD, Florence, Italy Ben R. Leedle, Jr., Wichita, KS Daniel M. Runyan, OD, Springfield, OH Sam Lerman, MD, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H. Farouk Sadiq, MD, St. Louis, MO Wing-Kay Leung, MD, Taipei, Taiwan Elmar P. Sakala, MD, Loma Linda, CA Charles D. Levit, MD, New York, NY Naquib A. Samaan, MD, PhD, Houston, TX Judy E. Levy, RN, Gaithersburg, MD Jean Pierre Sauvanet, MD, Paris, France Eunice A. Lewis, RD, Brooklyn, NY Ulrich K. Schubart, MD, Bronx, NY Maria Cristina Librenti, MD, Basiglio (Milan), Italy Morris Schwestzer, MD, PhD, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hun-Chi Lin, PhD, Los Angeles, CA Hal Scofield, MD, Oklahoma City, OK Kurt Link, MD, Richmond, VA Clive Hamilton Sell, MD, Phoenix, AZ Folke Lithner, MD, PhD, Umea, Sweden David I. Shadowen, MD, Charleston, SC Lisa M. Loeb, Houston, TX Robert Francis Shaw, MD, San Francisco, CA Lusiana Loman, MD, New Port Richey, FL Jerry K. Shirah, Tallahassee, FL Robert Ludlow, Gainesville, FL Martin Silink, East Killara, Australia Tami Jo Lyon, MPH, RD, Los Angeles, CA Frank Singer, MD, Paterson, NJ Dorothy Mallory, RN, Whitehead, British Columbia, Canada Patricia Skira, MS, PA, Pittsburgh, PA Mary Lou Maras, RD, CDE, Washington, DC Steven A. Smith, MD, Knoxville, TN Joseph W. Marin, Fair Oaks, CA Jane M. Sparks, Atlanta, GA Louis F. Martin, MD, Hershey, PA Herb S. Steb, C.PED, MBA, Summit, NJ Buscema Massimo, MD, London, UK Janice Steinmetz, RN, BSN, Memphis, TN Elizabeth J. Mayer, MS, Denver, CO Stephen M. Stockberger, Indianapolis, IN Theodore Mazzone, MD, Chicago, IL Serena Stoulwell, Bayside, NY Michele McDermott, MD, Houston, TX Tim Stryke, MD, Stoneham, MA David W. McGregor, RN, CPQA, Chalmette, LA Andrew J. Szabo, MD, New York, NY E. Kelly McLaughlin, DPM, N. Attleboro, MA Ryosaburo Takaki, MD, Oita, Japan Larry McNeil, MD, Nashville, TN Kazunori Tamada, MD, Boston, MA Mary Mead, San Francisco, CA Alfred Tenore, MD, New Orleans, LA Linda J. Million, RN, CDE, Charlotte, NC Timothy H. Tillo, DPM, Jacksonville, FL DIABETES CARE, VOL. 11, NO. 10, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1988 ORGANIZATION SECTION Roberto Toccafondi, Florence, Italy Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension in Blacks to be Roxanne O. True, Elizabethtown, KY held 28 June through 2 July 1989 at the Kenyatta International Kathleen Twitchell, RN, Plymouth, MN Conference Center in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference, co- Motozumi Ukamito, Kyoto, Japan sponsored by ADA, will cover such topics as basic science as Eugenia Umberger, Centerport, PA well as clinical and community research on hypertension in Nina Vardi, MD, Haifa, Israel Blacks. Awards for Distinguished Research, Outstanding Com- Apichati Vichayanrat, MD, Bangkok, Thailand munity Service, and Outstanding Health Professional Student Jean M. Waldt, RN, St. Paul, MN in Hypertension in Blacks will be presented at the conference. Shawnee Weir, MD, Cary, NC For information about conference registration and guidelines Karen Werner-Petak, DVM, Houston, TX for abstract submissions and award nominations please con- Thomas B. Wiegmann, MD, Kansas City, KS tact Ms. CecileCate, Executive Director, International Society Naomi L. Wienless, MS, Round Lake, IL on Hypertension in Blacks, 69 Butler Street, SE, Atlanta, GA Vivian L. Williams, RN, Durham, NC 30303. Kathryn Ann Wilson, MD, Oklahoma City, OK Koichi Yokono, Kobe, Japan IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Yasuaki Yoshidd, MD, Kobe, Japan Robert A. Young, MD, Hudson, FL The symposium sponsored by the National Institutes of Health Maury Zivitz, PhD, Indianapolis, IN "Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Insulin, IGF's, and Their Receptors: Implications for the CNS" will be held 23-24 Jan- ABSTRACT DEADLINE uary 1989 at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Participants include G.I. Bell, David Clemmons, Argiris Ef- The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the American Dia- stratiadis, Douglas Ishii, Steven Jacobs, Barry I. Posner, Jesse betes Association's 49th Annual Meeting and Scientific Ses- Roth, William Rutter, Axel Ullrich, and Judson Van Wyk. For sions is 9 January 1989. Abstract reproduction forms are in- more information, contact Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD, Diabetes serted in the October issues of Diabetes Care and Diabetes. Branch, National Institutes of Health, tel.: (301) 496-8090, or Additional forms are available from the American Diabetes Mohan Raizada, PhD, Gainesville, FL, tel.: (904) 372-3791. Association, Inc., National Service Center, 1660 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, ATTN: Division of Scientific and Med- 3RD INTERNATIONAL DIABETES CONFERENCE ical Affairs.