Dr. Allen M. Spiegel is the Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York.

Education:
BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University, 1967
MD, cum laude, Harvard Medical School, 1971

Background:
Dr. Spiegel is an internationally renowned physician-scientist and endocrinologist. For nearly 30 years, Dr. Spiegel has had a nationally regarded and highly distinguished career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he has been Director of the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive Diseases & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) since 1999. He began his career at the NIH in 1973 as a Clinical Associate in its Endocrinology Training program. He then served as a Senior Investigator in the Metabolic Disease Branch from 1977 to 1984. In 1985 he was appointed Chief of Molecular Pathophysiology, and then Chief of the Metabolic Diseases Branch. In addition, he was simultaneously appointed Director of the NIDDK's Division of Intramural Research. He served in these various capacities until his appointment as Director of the NIDDK.

Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
Recipient,1998 Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from the Endocrine Society
Recipient, 1996 Komrower Memorial Lecture Award from the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism