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Ricard S. Beaser, MD
Richard S. Beaser, M.D., is currently the Senior Strategic Advisor for Educational Services at the Joslin Diabetes Center and a Corresponding Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He recently retired from patient care in the Adult Diabetes Section of the Joslin Clinic (Joslin Diabetes Center) where he had also been the Medical Director, Continuing Medical Education and Senior Strategic Advisor, Education Programs. He was also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Dr. Beaser is a native of Massachusetts, graduated from Trinity College, Hartford in 1973, and from Boston University School of Medicine with an MD degree in 1977. He did his residency 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 joined the staff of the Joslin Diabetes Center in 1982. He has held numerous past positions at Joslin, including Section Chief of the Adult Diabetology Practice, Medical Director of the Diabetes Treatment Unit, and Coordinator of the Patient Education Section. He has been a clinical research investigator, including the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. Dr. Beaser has authored multiple editions of 4 books: Joslin Diabetes Manual (1989), Outsmarting Diabetes (1994), The Joslin Guide to Diabetes (1995, 2005), and Joslin’s Diabetes Deskbook: A Guide for Primary Care Providers (2001, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2014). He is a well-known national lecturer/faculty on clinical diabetes and its comorbidities. He also had been in an active clinical practice of adult diabetes at both the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and in Needham, Massachusetts until his retirement from clinical care in June, 2023.
Dr. Beaser founded the Professional Education Department at Joslin Diabetes Center in the early 1990’s, serving as Medical Director of the Continuing Medical Education Department, leading the many educational outreach efforts of this world-recognized Diabetes Center. He was responsible for overseeing project and activity development. In his role as Senior Strategic Advisor, Education Programs at the Joslin Diabetes Center, which he continues currently, he leverages his years of Professional Education experience in assisting groups within Joslin who are developing professional education programs, materials, and interventions both domestically and internationally. In these roles, he continues to lecture, and develop and/or oversee educational content production for Joslin, and also consult on the academic development/production of various external educational projects which target physicians, other medical professionals, and patients.
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Dr. El Sayed is the Vice President of Healthcare Improvement, American Diabetes Association.
She oversees the development of the ADA's Standards of Medical Care and consensus statements, serves as chair of the Professional Practice Committee, and heads the professional education and accreditation. She also leads the quality improvement and international programs for the American Diabetes Association.
Dr. El Sayed is an endocrinologist and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical expertise includes general diabetes, diabetes prevention, lifestyle medicine, and diabetes technology. She has over a decade of experience in combined diabetes and quality improvement and training programs nationally and internationally. Her programs include training healthcare workforces, professionals, trainees, and students across the US and the globe to support the improvement of diabetes care.
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Alissa R. Segal, PharmD, RPh, CDCES, CDTC, FCCP
Dr. Segal is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice, clinical pharmacist and certified diabetes care and education specialist with the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston, MA.
After completing post-doctorate residencies at the Medical Center at Princeton and the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Segal spent several years of teaching at the University of New Mexico, where she also cared for patients and completed scholarly work in family practice, with a focus on diabetes care. In 2007, Dr. Segal joined MCPHS and established clinical pharmacy services at the Joslin Diabetes Center. Her research focus on the care of adults with diabetes has led to numerous publications on topics, including: diabetes in older adults and concentrated insulin, pharmacotherapy guidelines for patients with type 2 diabetes, and book chapters in the Joslin Deskbook, Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies, and Geriatric Diabetes. Dr. Segal has also developed education modules for the Joslin Diabetes Center, International Diabetes Federation and the American Diabetes Association. She also serves on the ADA’s Primary Care Advisory Group and Professional Practice Committees, and is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
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Dr. McCoy is Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where she is a practicing primary care physician, endocrinologist, and medical director of the Mayo Clinic Ambulance Community Paramedic Program. Dr. McCoy is a NIH-, PCORI-, and AHRQ-funded health services researcher whose work leverages real-world evidence to improve the quality, equity, and accessibility of diabetes care.
Dr. McCoy is an active member of the American Diabetes Association, where she currently serves as Chair-Elect of the Diabetes in Primary Care Interest Group and is a member of the Primary Care Advisory Group. Dr. McCoy received her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical degree at Johns Hopkins, completed her medical training in internal medicine and endocrinology at Mayo Clinic, and has been on faculty at Mayo Clinic since 2015.
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