David Matthew Nathan, MD
Director, Diabetes Center
- Departments
- Diabetes
- Department of Medicine
Specialties
- Transplant Center
- Pancreas/Islet Transplant
- Clinical Interests
- Diabetes management
- Endocrinology
- Intensive therapies of diabetes
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Medical Education
- MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Foreign Languages
- Spanish
- Accepting New Primary Care Patients
- No - Not Accepting new primary care patients
Accepting New Specialty Patients
Yes
- Insurances Accepted
- Aetna Health Inc.
Beech Street
Best Doctors
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
Centene/Celticare
Cigna (PAL #'s)
Cigna/Healthsource NH
EverCare
Fallon Community HealthCare
ForMost Managed Care
Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - other
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - SSN
Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
Healthy Start
Humana/Choice Care PPO
Medicaid
Medicare
Neighborhood Health Plan - ACD
Neighborhood Health Plan - PBO
Network Health
OSW - Maine
OSW - Rhode Island
Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
Railroad Medicare
Railroad Medicare - ACD
TriCare
Tufts Health Plan
Tufts Medicare Advantage PPO
Unicare
United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
At this year’s annual Community Health Day, more than 70 guests gathered at the MGH Revere HealthCare Center to celebrate local community health efforts and learn about one of today’s most pressing health topics: diabetes.
Join Mass General experts for a continuing medical education event discussing interventions for patients with foot and ankle complications related to diabetes mellitus and vascular disease.
Near-normal control of glucose beginning as soon as possible after diagnosis would greatly improve the long-term prognosis of type 1 diabetes, concludes a study published in the July 27, 2009, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, which updates information about the clinical course of type 1 diabetes.
Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent compared with placebo in people at high risk for the disease, researchers conclude based on 10 years of data.
Diabetes Unit
50 Staniford Street
3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02114-2517
Phone: 617-726-2875
Fax: 617-726-6781
Call the Massachusetts General Hospital physician referral service at 800-711-4644.
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