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Present	Physician, Baystate Health ‐ Department of Medicine
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Present	Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
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2012 - Present	President, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine
2009 - Present	President, Central Society of Clinical Research
2007 - Present	President, Association of Specialty Professors
2016	Board of Directors, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine
2011 - 2012	Chair, FDA Endocrine and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee

Fellow, American College of Physicians (2009)
Top Doctors Hour Detroit Magazine (2008-2014)
U.S. Food and Drug Advisory Committee Service Award (2012)
American Diabetes Association Diabetes Champion Award, Nominee (2011)
K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (2002-2009)

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COVID-19 mitigation for high-risk populations in Springfield Massachusetts USA: a health systems approach (Paul A Pirraglia, Cristina Huebner Torres, Jane Garb, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2021)

Background: Numerous reports have demonstrated the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had on vulnerable populations. Our purpose is to describe our health care system's response to this impact. Methods: We convened a Workgroup with the ...

Erratum. Response to Comment on Pathak et al. Severe Hypoglycemia Requiring Medical Intervention in a Large Cohort of Adults With Diabetes Receiving Care in U.S. Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: 2005–2011. Diabetes Care 2016;39:363–370. Diabetes Care 2017;40:e26 (Ram D. Pathak, Emily B. Schroeder, Elizabeth R. Seaquist, et al.) Diabetes Care (2017)

High rates of severe hypoglycemia among African American patients with diabetes: the surveillance, prevention, and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) network (Andrew J Karter, Kasia J Lipska, Patrick J. O’Connor, et al.) Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications (2017)

Response to Comment on Pathak et al. Severe Hypoglycemia Requiring Medical Intervention in a Large Cohort of Adults With Diabetes Receiving Care in U.S. Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: 2005-2011. Diabetes Care 2016;39:363-370. (Ram D. Pathak, Emily B. Schroeder, Elizabeth R. Seaquist, et al.) Diabetes Care (2017)

Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Incident Atrial Fibrillation and P-Wave Indices in the ACCORD Blood Pressure Trial. (Lin Y. Chen, J. Thomas Bigger, Kathleen T. Hickey, et al.) American Journal of Hypertension (2016)

Severe Hypoglycemia Requiring Medical Intervention in a Large Cohort of Adults With Diabetes Receiving Care in U.S. Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: 2005–2011 (Ram D. Pathak, Emily B. Schroeder, Elizabeth R. Seaquist, et al.) Diabetes Care (2016)

Who Must We Target Now to Minimize Future Cardiovascular Events and Total Mortality?: Lessons From the Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) Cohort Study. (Jay R. Desai, Gabriela Vazquez-Benitez, Zhiyuan Xu, et al.) Circulation-cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (2015)

Insulin Dose and Cardiovascular Mortality in the ACCORD Trial (Elias S. Siraj, Daniel J. Rubin, Matthew C. Riddle, et al.) Diabetes Care (2015)

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease among individuals with diabetes in the SUPREME-DM Project, 2005–2011 (Emily B. Schroeder, J. David Powers, Patrick J. O’Connor, et al.) Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications (2015)

Recommendations for management of diabetes during Ramadan: update 2015 (Mahmoud Ibrahim, Megahed Abu Al Magd, Firas A Annabi, et al.) BMJ open diabetes research & care (2015)

Preventable Major Cardiovascular Events Associated With Uncontrolled Glucose, Blood Pressure, and Lipids and Active Smoking in Adults With Diabetes With and Without Cardiovascular Disease: A Contemporary Analysis (Gabriela Vazquez-Benitez, Jay R. Desai, Stanley Xu, et al.) Diabetes Care (2015)

Trends in Diabetes Incidence Among 7 Million Insured Adults, 2006–2011 The SUPREME-DM Project (Gregory A. Nichols, Emily B. Schroeder, Andrew J. Karter, et al.) American Journal of Epidemiology (2015)

Impact of Intensive Glycemic Control on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation and Associated Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Study) (Omid Fatemi, Eugene Yuriditsky, Costas Tsioufis, et al.) (2014)

Randomized Trial of Telephone Outreach to Improve Medication Adherence and Metabolic Control in Adults With Diabetes (Patrick J. O’Connor, Julie A. Schmittdiel, Ram D. Pathak, et al.) Diabetes Care (2014)

Impact of Intensive Glycemic Control on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation and Associated Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Study) (Omid Fatemi, Eugene Yuriditsky, Costas Tsioufis, et al.) American Journal of Cardiology (2014)

Patient Characteristics and Participation in a Genetic Study: A Type 2 Diabetes Cohort (Loabat Amiri, Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow, Heather Dakki, et al.) Journal of Investigative Medicine (2014)

CA6-02: Collaborative Goal Setting and HbA1c Control Among Patients With Diabetes (Jennifer Elston Lafata, Elizabeth Dobie, Heather Morris, et al.) Clinical Medicine & Research (2012)

Construction of a Multisite DataLink Using Electronic Health Records for the Identification, Surveillance, Prevention, and Management of Diabetes Mellitus: The SUPREME-DM Project (Gregory A. Nichols, Jay Desai, Jennifer Elston Lafata, et al.) Preventing Chronic Disease (2012)

Recommendations for management of diabetes during Ramadan: update 2010. (Monira Al-Arouj, Samir Assaad-Khalil, John Buse, et al.) Diabetes Care (2010)

Effect of intensive treatment of hyperglycaemia on microvascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes: an analysis of the ACCORD randomised trial (Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, Timothy Craven, Mary Ann Banerji, et al.) The Lancet (2010)

C-reactive protein gene variation and type 2 diabetes mellitus: A case–control study (Robert Y.L. Zee, Soren Germer, Abraham Thomas, et al.) Atherosclerosis (2008)

Insulin Induces Renal Vasodilation, Increases Plasma Renin Activity, and Sensitizes the Renal Vasculature to Angiotensin Receptor Blockade in Healthy Subjects (Todd S. Perlstein, Marie Gerhard-Herman, Norman K. Hollenberg, et al.) Journal of The American Society of Nephrology (2007)

Obesity and Hypertension (Nikheel S. Kolatkar, Abraham Thomas and Gordon H Williams) (2006)

Metabolic Effects of Rosiglitazone in HIV Lipodystrophy: A Randomized, Controlled Trial (Colleen Hadigan, Sigal Yawetz, Abraham Thomas, et al.) Annals of Internal Medicine (2004)

Glimepiride improves both first and second phases of insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes. (Mary Korytkowski, Abraham Thomas, Lynn Reid, et al.) Diabetes Care (2002)