Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES

Fine-art photographer who is also a diabetes researcher, educator and advocate. Medical journalist and videographer.

[Breakthrough T1D @BreakthroughT1D]

Breakthrough T1D CEO Dr. Aaron Kowalski shares some of the exciting type 1 diabetes (T1D) research he's looking forward to hearing about at #ADA2026!

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[Steven Kahn @StevenKahn11]

I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the US to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House. The editor of ADA journal Steve Kahn was nondisruptivedly handing out his recent editorial in ADA journal that criticized Trump NIH policies. Big mistake by @AmDiabetesAssn https://t.co/BcRCS793PY

[Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social @hswapnil]

@NephRodby @DrDanMO @rheault_m @brian_rifkin @medpagetoday @KristinaMFiore @AmDiabetesAssn Go ahead and read it https://t.co/EtgPXCjCIW

It’s plain vanilla academic unhappiness at NIH. No revolutionary pamphleteer rhetoric IMO

#ADA2026

[Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social @hswapnil]

@PulmCrit Additional coverage from the Seattle times: https://t.co/ff2J5lRX66

#ADA2026

[carolyn johnson @Carolynyjohnson]

Diabetes researchers, including the editor of a flagship journal, ejected from conference after criticizing Trump's "dismantling" of biomedical research https://t.co/eOdj6m6iGp

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

@DiabetesNinja @ADA_DiabetesPro @rkreienkMDPhD Love the illustration of the session.

[Dr. Alice Cheng @AliceYYCheng]

https://t.co/BSg6Q3ahwc

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House https://t.co/Nm6Vb9I6HC #ADASciSessions

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

ADA Removes Five Scientists from Its Annual Conference
https://t.co/yPTbtvWEcX #ADASciSessions

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

In case you didn't get a chance to read the reprint.

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! https://t.co/mU33UrkcPW #ADASciSessions

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting https://t.co/Z2owVQmQ55 #ADASciSessions

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration https://t.co/Fotg4ps7bC #ADASciSessions

[Ted Kyle @ConscienHealth]

If the goal was to stir controversy, leadership executed yesterday's opening of #ADASciSessions brilliantly. But we rather doubt this is what ADA had in mind. Sending police after distinguished scientists is not good.
HT: @medpagetoday @KristinaMFiore
https://t.co/pYYMDaZKqz

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

@Pogue Reading now by myself and loving the book.

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s #Vaccine Policies https://t.co/Mff5juUjAq

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

More Lost Science: NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts https://t.co/jdLQag3ccI #LostScience

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

She Studied Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria and lost her job and the science when USAID was shut down. #Malaria #mosquito https://t.co/pniYfHlU5P

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

There’s a cost to all of these cuts.” Who Left the Federal Workforce The impact of #DOGE https://t.co/aBNN9bguZK via @NYTimes

[Mark Harmel MPH, CDCES @MarkHarmel]

A growing contingent of doctors say they are wary of federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe https://t.co/ubphbKuIqb via @WSJ