UF Diabetes Institute Director To Be Honored by the American Diabetes Association

University of Florida College of Medicine researcher and UF Diabetes Institute Director Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., is the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s 2023 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes.

The college is part of UF Health, the university’s academic health center.

The award honors academics, health care providers and educators who have contributed to important advances in diabetes care and research. It also honors those who have demonstrated outstanding research, evaluation and care in diabetes that has an international perspective and impact.

The award is among the most prestigious to be presented by the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, at its 83rd Scientific Sessions June 23-26 in San Diego.

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