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NIDDK Director's Update Summer 2022


DIRECTOR'S NOTE

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Abraham Lincoln

As the spring months edge into summer, we predict what changes lie ahead,
bringing life back to the outdoors. And for the first time in two years, spring
brought many people back into to the physical workplace, including non-clinical
NIDDK staff. NIDDK administrative and IT support teams prepared the spaces,
navigated hybrid meetings, and set the stage to ease those who worked remotely
back into the routine of commuting and seeing colleagues in person.

In this issue, we capture how shared experiences such as these make our
relationships stronger and mark our course toward creating a better future.
Everyone has experienced change as programs were adjusted to accommodate
pandemic-related restrictions and limitations. While events such as the Annual
Fellows’ Scientific Conference have been successfully held over Zoom for the
last two years, now campus is rejuvenating: Trainees, mentors, and mentees can
return to campus and the bench and have face-to-face meetings, bringing new
energy to interactions and creating a more complete NIH experience.

We also collectively commemorate an important milestone in NIDDK’s history, the
20-year anniversary of the Network of Minority Health Research Investigator
program. This cornerstone of NIDDK’s Office of Minority Health Research
Coordination connects researchers from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds to
empower their professional growth, form lifelong bonds, and pay it forward
through mentoring.

We highlight unique efforts to engage communities and foster open conversations
to make progress in advancing health equity through inclusion, accessibility,
diversity, and civility in workplace culture and research efforts. We learn from
an NIDDK program director, Dr. Padma Maruvada, and a fellow, Dr. Saira Mehmood,
who share their expertise, unique perspectives, and passions to advance the
institute’s strategic goals and improve health for all people living with
conditions within NIDDK’s mission.

I’m heartened that our NIDDK family and broader community have begun to safely
reunite in the workplace, some of us meeting in person for the very first time.
Some of you have been working on-site throughout the pandemic and will be
running into your colleagues in the hall again. I hope that as we return to our
own physical workspaces, we come back together with a renewed sense of purpose
and remain ever grateful to those who’ve kept those workspaces running and cared
for people in person this whole time.

In good health,

Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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