John Buse, MD, PhD is the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor and Director of the Diabetes Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He received his MD and PhD from Duke University before training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Buse completed service as President for Medicine & Science at the American Diabetes Association in 2008. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2010 Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award, the 2019 American Diabetes Association (ADA) Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award and the 2024 ADA Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award. He has authored more than 500 publications. Dr Buse currently works with research teams in multicenter studies of diabetes and obesity treatment, in translating basic science innovation to clinical application, and in exploring the safety and efficacy of treatments using real world evidence.