McCulloch, David K., MD, FRCP

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, USA

David K. McCulloch obtained his MD in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1977. He did postgraduate training in Edinburgh and Nottingham, in the UK, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1991. He moved to the University of Washington, Seattle in 1983, where he is now a Clinical Professor of Medicine. He has done research studies in a wide variety of areas related to diabetes, and has over 70 peer-reviewed publications related to this. Since 1994 he joined Group Health Cooperative, a large HMO in Washington State, as senior Diabetologist where he works with an energetic team to develop innovative strategies to improve diabetes care both within Group Health Cooperative and around the world. Since 1998 he has been the diabetes chair in several national collaborative efforts to improve diabetes care in association with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Bureau of Primary Care and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.