RITA RASTOGI KALYANI, MD MHS FACP

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Rita Kalyani is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. She is an active clinician and sees patients in the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center. Dr. Kalyani’s research focuses on diabetes and its complications, particularly in high-risk populations. She is a past Chair of the American Diabetes Association’s Professional Practice Committee, responsible for the annual clinical guidelines position statement ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. She is also a voting member of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Kalyani is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes POC-IT Guide for health care professionals. She is coauthor of two books for patients and their families, Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living With Diabetes (2018) and also Winning With Diabetes: Inspiring Stories from Athletes to Help You Thrive (2023), both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. She was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2017 and recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2022.

Thomas N. Mitchell, BA

Manager

Tom received a BA in Philosophy and Theology from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in Westminster, MD, and did some post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Wilmer Eye Institute’s Johns Hopkins Center for Hereditary Eye Diseases in 1981. In 2004, he moved over to the Department of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism as a Regulatory Documents Specialist for the Division’s Clinical Trials Unit. He served as the Administrator of the Johns Hopkins Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and has worked on several other diabetes projects, including the Trinidad and Tobago Health Sciences Initiative (TTHSI) Diabetes Outreach Programme, a joint project of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

Jennifer E. Fairman, MA MPS CMI FAMI

Creative Designer and Developer
Certified Medical Illustrator

Jeni holds a faculty appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine where she previously received her Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration. Her background includes experience in medical and scientific illustration for publication and patient education, 2D animation, web interactivity and graphic design. Jennifer is a professional member and served on the Board of Governors of the Association of Medical Illustrators. She served as a scientific illustrator and research associate in entomology for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She is also a professional member of the GNSI, The Illustrators Club of Washington, DC, and has served for 4 terms as a Board Member and is currently an advisor to the Vesalius Trust. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work including Awards of Merit and Excellence from the AMI, a Smithsonian Women’s Committee Grant, a James Smithson Society Fellowship, and a Vesalius Trust Research Grant. Ms. Fairman is also the 1999 recipient of the Inez Demonet Award. She was recently inducted as a Fellow of the AMI and received it’s Outstanding Achievement Award.

Angela Yang, BA

Editorial Assistant

Angela Yang studied violin performance at Peabody Conservatory before graduating from Johns Hopkins University with an undergraduate degree in public health, focusing on adolescent socio-medical studies. Angela joined a T1D pathology research lab at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where her investigations were on the mechanisms of anti-islet antibodies and x-monoclonal antibodies. She completed her summer research internship at the Joslin Diabetes Center to explore physiological mechanisms of SGLT-2 Inhibitor and CRISPR screening for beta cell protection. As a prospective medical student, she plans to devote her academic studies and career in the interdisciplinary field of public health, medicine, and law to comprehensively target widening gaps in health inequity.

Experts 

• • Marissa Alert, PhD
  • Eugene Arnold, MS LD RD CDE
  • Roger S. Blumenthal, MD
  • Stanley Chen Cardenas, MD
  • Mark Corriere, MD
  • Alona Crowder, PharmD CDE
  • Thomas Donner, MD
  • Meg Gerstenblith, MD
  • Adena Goldstein, RN BSN CDE
  • Asha Gullapalli, MS RD LDN CDE
  • Edward K. Kasper, MD
  • Daphne Knicely, MD
  • Benjamin Lalani
  • Nelson Maniscalco, DPM FACPM DABPM AACFAS
  • Christine McKinney, RD LDN CDE
  • Lisa Miller, DPM
  • Caitlin Nass, MSN CRNP
  • Connie Qiu, MD
  • Elizabeth Ratchford, MD
  • Amy Rohrbaugh, BA MS (President & Founder, The Frannie Foundation)
  • Maureen Seel, RDN/LDN CDE
  • Raghav Tripathi, MD
  • Kimberly Vaughn, CRNP MSN
  • Risa Wolf, MD