Trevor Orchard: Fruitful Contributions to Diabetes Epidemiology.

Respected on both sides of the Atlantic for questioning the tenets underlying the pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications, Trevor Orchard continues to influence the fields of epidemiology and medicine. With a self-effacing style that might be described as typically British, he remains provocative and prominent among the research community. An Englishman educated in Wales and living in the U.S., Orchard is known for his work on influential large-scale publicly funded interventional studies (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial [DCCT], Diabetes Prevention Program [DPP], Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation in Type 2 Diabetes [BARI 2D]), observational studies (Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study [EDC]), and interventional-turned-observational studies (Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study [DPPOS], Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications [EDIC]). He is best known for the EDC, which he has led for nearly 30 years.