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Trump: ADA president elect resigns after US doctors are ejected from diabetes meeting
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The president elect of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has resigned following uproar at the association’s annual meeting, when five doctors were forcibly ejected after handing out copies of an editorial criticising the administration of the US president, Donald Trump.1Jennifer Green, professor of medicine at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, was due to lead the ADA from January 2027. But multiple sources cited by the MedPage Today news site,2 which broke the story, said that...
The president elect of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has resigned following uproar at the association’s annual meeting, when five doctors were forcibly ejected after handing out copies of an editorial criticising the administration of the US president, Donald Trump.1Jennifer Green, professor of medicine at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, was due to lead the ADA from January 2027. But multiple sources cited by the MedPage Today news site,2 which broke the story, said that Green had resigned after the incident.Mark Atkinson, chair of the ADA’s Scientific Sessions Planning Committee, has also reportedly resigned over the incident.Dozens of experts had walked out of the presidential address session at the annual meeting on 7 June, holding a sign reading, “We stand with science.”The ADA has formally apologised to the five doctors expelled. In a video uploaded on 10 June3 Charles Henderson, ADA chief executive, said, “I recognise the impact that experience...