Principal Investigator
Cate Pihoker
Cate Pihoker, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Washington’s School of Medicine (UWSOM). She is the division head for the Pediatric Endocrinology, for UWSOM and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Working as a clinician and clinical investigator, Dr. Pihoker appreciates the integration of clinical care and research. For the past thirty years, her research focus has been pediatric diabetes. She was a PI for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study and is currently an investigator on multiple observational and interventional studies of youth with diabetes.
CO-Investigator
Laura Pyle, PhD
Laura Pyle, PhD, is a Research Professor in the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, the Director of Biostatistics at the University of Washington Medicine Diabetes Institute (UWMDI) and the Director of Integrative Data Sciences and Multi-Center Coordination at the UWMDI. Her methodological research interests are the design and analysis of clinical trials, methods for longitudinal data analysis, and multi-omics integration. Clinical areas of application include type 1 and type 2 diabetes across the lifespan, complications and comorbidities related to diabetes, and metabolism. She obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Colorado in 2012. She was previously a Research Scientist at The George Washington University Biostatistics Center, where she was co-investigator and lead biostatistician on multicenter clinical trials funded by NIDDK to compare pharmaceutical and lifestyle treatments for type 2 diabetes in youth and adults.
About Our Center
Systematic surveillance of diabetes in YYA will be conducted through a regional network of five major health systems across the Pacific Northwest (PNW): Seattle Children’s (SCH), University of Washington Medicine (UWM), Providence Health & Services, Benaroya Research Institute/Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMF), and the Veterans Integrated Service Networks Region 20 (VISN 20). SCH provides care to >70% of youth with diabetes in King and Snohomish counties, while also serving residents across Washington state. UWM, VMF, and Providence represent three of the largest health systems providing care to young adults with diabetes in the PNW, with Providence’s coverage extending across WA, OR, MT, ID and AK. The VA VISN 20 network provides particularly valuable coverage of rural and historically underserved populations, covering almost 820,000 square miles (approximately 23% of the geographic US).
