Ann Albright, PhD, RD
Ann Albright, PhD, RD, has an academic appointment in the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco where she serves as the Chief of the California Diabetes Program for the California Department of Health Services. She has recently returned from serving as the Senior Health Policy Fellow in the Office of the United States Surgeon General where she advised the Surgeon General and the Secretary of Health on diabetes, obesity, nutrition, and physical activity.
Dr. Albright received her doctoral degree in Exercise Physiology from Ohio State University. She completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis and a clinical internship in Nutrition at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Albright has conducted research investigations in body composition, diabetic kidney disease and exercise, glucose transporters in adipose tissue and muscle, and the feasibility of enhanced care in a population of Medicaid recipients with type 2 diabetes. She is a frequent lecturer on diabetes and has published in several areas related to diabetes. Dr. Albright has served as chair for many organizations and projects including the American Diabetes Association National Government Relations and Advocacy Committee and the American College of Sports Medicine Position Paper Writing Team on Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise. Dr. Albright was named as the 2004 American Diabetes Association Woman of Valor and in June of 2005 was elected as the Vice President of Health Care and Education for the American Diabetes Association.
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