William V Tamborlane MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology); Deputy Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology

Departments & Organizations
Clinical Investigation, Yale Center for (YCCI): RegulatoryYale Medical Group
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
Pediatrics: Children's Diabetes Program
Biography
William V. Tamborlane, MD, is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in pediatrics before going to Yale as a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric endocrinology. His scientific accomplishments over the past 30 years have established his international reputation as one of the most highly regarded clinical scientists in childhood diabetes and related disorders. He has published more than 590 original articles, chapters and reviews in the area of diabetes. Major accomplishments have included pioneering studies in the development of insulin pump therapy, direction of the Yale Center in the DCCT/EDIC study, and investigations of diabetes-induced defects in counterregulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia. Current research efforts are directed at applying recent advances in insulin pump and glucose sensor technology toward the development of an artificial pancreas. He is the recipient of many awards and honors and is frequently listed in publications of distinction, including American Men and Women of Science, The Best Doctors in America, America’s Top Doctors and America’s Top Pediatricians. In 2006 and 2011, he was awarded the Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in Type 1 Diabetes by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.he also received the 2009 Diabetes Technology Society’s Diabetes Technology Leadership Award, the 2010 American Diabetes Association Outstanding Physician Clinician Award and the National Award for Career Achievement and Contributions to Clinical and Translational Science by ACRT/SCTS/AFMR. He is frequently listed in publications such as The Best Doctors in America, and America’s Top Doctors.He has served on the FDA’s Endocrine Advisory Board and on the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association and was the first Steering Committee Chair of the Diabetes Research in Children Network, is Chair of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium and Vice Chair (for Pediatrics) of the T1D Exchange clinic Registry. He leads a multidisciplinary team of physicians, diabetes nurse educators, dieticians and social workers that care for more than 1000 children, adolescents and young adults with diabetes.
Education
- M.D., Georgetown University , 1972
Selected Publication
- JDRF CGM Study Group. Impact of continuous glucose monitoring in optimizing intensive treatment of type 1 diabetes in adults and children. Writing Committee: Lead authors: Tamborlane WV, Beck RW. Additional authors: Bode BW, Buckingham B, Chase HP, Clemons R, Fiallo-Scharer R, Fox LA, Gilliam LK, Hirsch I, Huang ES, Kollman C, Kowalski A, Laffel L, Lawrence J, Lee J, Mauras N, O’Grady M, Ruedy KJ, Tansey M, Tsalikian E, Weinzimer SA, Wilson DM, Wolpert H, Wysocki T, Xing D. N Engl J Med 2008; 359:1464-1476.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- M.D. Excellence in Clinical Research Award(2006) , JDRF 2006 Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine
Articles

Fall/Winter 2004
Winter 1979
A Special Program to Help Juvenile Diabetics“… Last year, Connecticut became the second state (after Florida) to...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New research effort will target hypoglycemia
“Everything about diabetes cuts two ways,” says William Tamborlane, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the School of...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D., Donald Ross Coustan, M.D. ’68, HS ’73
Yale physicians have taken on leadership roles in the American Diabetes Association, the nation’s leading voluntary...
Autumn 2009
Faculty Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Eleven Yale faculty members, including six from the School of Medicine, were elected to the Connecticut Academy of...

Autumn 2010
William V. Tamborlane
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor of pediatrics (endocrinology) and a world-renowned pioneer in the...
Spring 2002
William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D.
William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D., professor and section chief of pediatric endocrinology, is heading a national group...
Spring 2010
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor and section chief of pediatric endocrinology and deputy director of the...

Autumn 2011
William V. Tamborlane
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor of pediatrics (endocrinology), received the T2-Translation Award by the...



