By Pallis Aurora | Donor Relations Manager
The American Diabetes Association is excited to announce our new CEO Chuck Hendersen. Following six months of serving in the interim office of the CEO, Charles was selected from a pool of highly qualified candidates to serve in this position in a search led by the Furst Group, which is ranked as a Top 10 executive search firm by Modern Healthcare and one of “America's Best Executive Search Firms” by Forbes.
Charles joined the ADA in January 2020 from Champion Life Safety Solutions where he was CEO & President. Prior to that, he was a Senior Executive running multi-billion territories across the country for Dell Healthcare, Viacom(MTV Networks), and business development for Commonground Marketing (including executing special events in the field), and RAPP. His professional skillset and success, coupled with his passion and desire to give back makes this a perfect time for him to lead a top non-profit organization. After spending over 24 years in for-profit sectors and volunteering in the non-profit sector, Charles is passionate about spending the balance of his career in a space that will make a significant impact on millions of lives. Philanthropy and Sales/Fundraising is thread through the fabric of his DNA.
Pathway to Stop Diabetes
We launched Pathway to Stop Diabetes ® with a simple, yet revolutionary goal — find scientists at the peak of their creativity and provide them with the autonomy, flexibility and resources toward the road to breakthrough discoveries. We aim to attract and retain brilliant scientists in diabetes. Awarding a five-year grant, providing access to scientific and career mentoring from leading diabetes researchers and creating a diabetes think tank creates a unique formula to cultivate the next generation of leaders, whose discoveries will stop diabetes and all its burdens once and for all.
Insulin was discovered 100+ years ago, and it remains the only treatment for diabetes today. While insulin is lifesaving, it is not a cure. Despite technological advances, too many of us and our loved ones are still fettered by diabetes, fearing about the next high or low and its longterm consequences, including vision loss, kidney failure, heart disease and limb amputations. To ensure that not another 100 years go by without a cure, we are investing in Pathway to Stop Diabetes ® investigators to capitalize on current scientific and technological advances to make life with diabetes better and toward our goal of curing it.
We are in the fight of our lifetime. The diagnosis of diabetes in the U.S. has increased from under 1% in 1957 to one in ten Americans having the disease today. While the number of people needing diabetes care continues to increase, the number of medical professionals needed for diabetes care has dwindled. This brain drain is caused by the low compensation and reimbursement rates—compared with other specialties—high medical school debt and other factors. Researchers project that there will be a shortage upwards of 139,000 physicians for people with diabetes by year 2035. Pathway to Stop Diabetes ® is one of our strategies to proactively address these issues for people with diabetes. We cannot and will not wait.
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