Roger S Mazze is Chief Academicn Officer at the International Diabetes Center, and Director of its WHO Collaborating Center for Diabetes Translation. A member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr Mazze is the principal author of Staged Diabetes Management. He is a founding co- Chair of the American Diabetes Association Council on Public Health and Health Care Delivery, and a member of IDF since 1977. Dr Mazze has worked for 35 years to improve diabetes care.