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Dr. Gerald M. Reaven received his MD degree from the University of Chicago in 1953, and after postgraduate training at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Stanford. He joined the Stanford University School of Medicine faculty in 1960, where he has remained.  

During his years on the Stanford faculty, Dr. Reaven has served as head of the division of endocrinology and metabolic diseases (1974-1977), the division of gerontology (1977-1990), and the division of endocrinology, gerontology, and metabolism (1990-1995). Dr. Reaven became emeritus in 1995, but remains active in teaching and research. His most recent appointment in the division of cardiovascular medicine reflects the broad range of his research interests.

Dr. Reaven has published over 500 peer-revised research articles in scientific journals, as well as authoring or co-authoring numerous textbook chapters and other scholarly works, focusing on the relationship between resistance to insulin action and a number of clinical syndromes. His research contributions have been widely recognized, and he has received the highest awards for research from the American Diabetes Association (Banting Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement, 1988), the British Diabetes Association (Banting Memorial Lecture, 1990), and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (Claude Bernard Lecture, 1994).

In addition, Dr. Reaven has received the William S. Middleton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Research from the Veterans Administration (1987), the Elliot Proctor Joslin Memorial Lecture (1990), the Nordisk-McGill Lecturer in Diabetes (1990), the Joseph Kirby Lilly, Distinguished Service Award (1995), Novartis Award for Longstanding Achievement in Diabetes (2000), the Sixth Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award (2001),the  Renold Medal of the American Diabetes Association (2002), the Frontier in Science Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2003), the National  Institutes of Health Astute Clinician Lectureship (2004), Ellen Browning Scripps Medal (2004), The Dewitt Goodman Memorial Lecture, Columbia Univ School of Med (2004), the Priscilla White Lectureship on Metabolism, Joslin Diabetes Center (2005), the Presidential Lectureship at the Canadian Hypertension Society (2005), the Fred Conrad Koch Award from the Endocrine Society (2006), Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Southern Denmark (2006), and inducted as an honorary Member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (2007).