IACT Health, partnered with Endocrine Consultants of Piedmont Columbus Regional, has been accepted into the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium.  The Pediatric Diabetes Consortium is a multi-center group of leading pediatric diabetes treatment centers in the United States. The long-term objective of the PDC is to improve the care of children with diabetes through sharing of best practices, collecting outcomes data in a common data repository, and collectively advocating for changes in pediatric diabetes care focused on evidence.
 
"It is an incredible honor and recognition of the growth of our endocrine center for Endocrine Consultants of Piedmont Columbus Regional to be appointed to the national Pediatric Diabetes Consortium.  This puts our pediatric diabetes research in a very elite group, along with university programs, such as those at Yale and Stanford.  We are thrilled to be a part of this national effort, which is focusing on the future of pediatric diabetes through research and the shared objective of improving the care of diabetes in children," said Dr. Steven Leichter of Endocrine Consultants of Piedmont Columbus Regional.
 
IACT Health and Endocrine Consultants of Piedmont Columbus Regional join an elite group of participants in the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium, including Baylor College of Medicine, Yale Pediatric Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University Medical Center, to name a few.  To date, the Consortium has studied and published outcomes in over thirty studies.  
 
Dr. William Tamborlane, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale School of Medicine, and Founder and Chair of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium, said, “We couldn’t be more delighted to have IACT Health and Dr. Leichter’s diabetes management team part of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium. The PDC now consists of more than 50 of the leading centers in the US who care for children, adolescents and young adults with diabetes. Our overarching aim is to test new drugs and new devices that will provide better ways to treat youth with diabetes. With IACT Heath in our group, there can be no doubt about our future success.”
 
IACT Health and Endocrine Consultants of Piedmont Columbus Regional conduct clinical trials in Columbus, Georgia and have opened another site in Newnan, Georgia to provide patients in the Newnan area with the best in endocrine care and the ease of participating in clinical trials.