Dr. Kathryn Kreider, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, is an professor of nursing at Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON). She is the founder and director for the first endocrinology specialty training program for NP's in the United States at DUSON. She currently practices in adult endocrinology at Duke’s Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition. While diabetes is her main area of expertise, her practice also includes the management of patients with thyroid, adrenal and other endocrine/metabolic disorders. As a member of the Duke Diabetes Research Clinic, she served as an investigator in various diabetes and hypertension clinical trials. She was appointed to the Professional Practice Committee (2018-2020) for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the committee that writes the guidelines Standards of Medical Care of Diabetes each year and currently serves on the Membership Advisory Board for the ADA. She has won numerous regional and national awards for clinical excellence, the most recent being the 2021 North Carolina State Award for Clinical Excellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.