Professor. Kathleen Wyne
Kittie Wyne, MD, PhD, FACE, FNLA is an adult endocrinologist specializing in the management of diabetes, lipids and hypertension. She moved to The Ohio State University in 2015 where she is the Director of the OSU Adult Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Program.
- Dr. Wyne earned her medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. After serving a residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, she completed her fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
- Dr. Wyne is board certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and in Clinical Lipidology. She is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology and of the National Lipid Association.
- Dr. Wyne has served as a member of the National Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) and the National Lipid Association (NLA) and was a member of the writing group for the 2017 AACE Lipid Guidelines. She is vice-chair of the writing group that is in process of updating the AACE Lipid Guidelines.
- She was appointed in 2018 to a new term as an SGE for the US FDA on their Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Toxicology Devices Panel.
- She has worked with the Texas Diabetes Council to write algorithms for the minimum standards for diabetes care in Texas and to revise their Diabetes Tool Kit, which is an educational resource for health care professionals who work with patients who have diabetes.
- Her current research interests are related to treatment of hypertriglyceridemia, treatment of lipodystrophy, the use of diabetes technology, new insulins, adult onset T1D, and cardiovascular risk in T1D.
- Her clinical activities are focused on management of the metabolic syndrome, developing a post-discharge clinic for hospital patients with diabetes, and on developing a center dedicated to adults with T1D and CFRD. She has participated in a number of basic science and clinical research projects. Dr. Wyne has published journal articles and abstracts on her work in endocrinology, lipid metabolism, and diabetes treatment.
