Richard Beaser, MD, is the Medical Executive Director of Professional Education, Joslin Diabetes Center. He is a practicing physician in the Joslin Clinic and holds the position of Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Beaser graduated in 1973 from Trinity College, Hartford, and received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1977. He served as a resident in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester from 1977-1980. He was a fellow in endocrinology at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA 1980-81, and in Endocrinology at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA 1981-82.

Dr. Beaser has been on the staff of the Joslin Diabetes Center since 1982. He has held numerous past positions at Joslin, including Section Chief of the Adult Diabetology Practice, Medical Director of the Diabetes Treatment Unit, Coordinator of the Patient Education Section, and Medical Director of Joslin TrialNet, a clinical trials network. He has been a clinical research investigator, including the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. Dr. Beaser has authored 4 books: Joslin Diabetes Manual, Outsmarting Diabetes, The Joslin Guide to Diabetes, and Joslin’s Diabetes Deskbook: A Guide for Primary Care Providers. Dr Beaser is a well-known national lecturer on clinical diabetes and its comorbidities. He is the author of numerous publications in peer review journals, review articles, and book chapters.

Dr. Beaser is currently the Medical Executive Director of Professional Education at Joslin Diabetes Center, a department he co-founded with the Executive Director in 1990. The Professional Education Department was incorporated into the Joslin Strategic Initiatives Division in 2000. As Medical Executive Director of this department, Dr. Beaser has overall responsibility for departmental activities. He specifically focuses on development or oversight of all educational content for the department, targeting physicians, other medical professionals, and patients. He is responsible for the business and project development aspects of the department, working collaboratively to conceive, develop, and seek funding for all departmental projects and activities.

Roy Freeman, MD, is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Freeman's clinical and research expertise is in the physiology and pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system and small nerve fibers. He is also an authority on the neurological complications of diabetes; neuropathic pain; the autonomic complications of Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy; and the diagnosis and treatment of autonomic and peripheral nervous system disorders. Dr. Freeman is widely published in these areas.

Dr. Freeman received his MB ChB at the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa. Subsequently, he completed his neurology residency and served as Chief Resident in neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

A frequent invited lecturer, Dr. Freeman has presented his works at national and international scientific forums on topics including the autonomic nervous system, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and neuropathic pain.

He has authored more than 150 original reports, chapters, and reviews.

Dr. Freeman is the principal investigator on National Institute of Health funded studies on the pathophysiology of orthostatic intolerance, and hypoglycemia and the autonomic nervous system.

Dr. Freeman is the chairman of the World Federation of Neurology research group on the autonomic nervous system. He is the former President of the American Autonomic Society and former Chairman of the Autonomic Nervous System Section of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Freeman has served as chair of scientific sessions at the American Academy of Neurology and other national and international meetings. He has been a member of the scientific program committee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Autonomic Society.

Dr Freeman is Co-Editor of the journal, Autonomic Neuroscience and on the editorial board of the journal Clinical Autonomic Research. Additionally, he has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several publications, including Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Pain, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Physiology.

John Giurini, DPM, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief of the Division of Podiatric Surgery and Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Co-director of the Joslin-Deaconess Diabetic Foot Center.

Dr. Giurini earned his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco and completed his surgical residency at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He then went on to a Fellowship in Diabetic Foot Disorders at the Deaconess Hospital.