William E. Russell MD

Dr. Bill Russell is a graduate of the University of Michigan (1972) and Harvard Medical School (1976). He completed a residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1979, 1982) as well as postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina (1982-1984). He then joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital. (1984-1990).
He moved to Vanderbilt University in 1990 and became Director of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in 1999. The Children’s Diabetes Program at Vanderbilt cares for over 2800 children with diabetes. From 1982 to 2017 his laboratory focused on the role of growth factors in the regeneration of mammalian liver. He is the Principal Investigator of the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Clinical Center at Vanderbilt and study PI for the Abatacept T1D prevention trial. In 2009 and 2010 he was Team Doctor for Team Type 1, an all-diabetic cycling team, as they won and set course records on the 3,000 mile Race Across America.