William H. Herman, M.D., M.P.H.
William H. Herman, M.D., M.P.H. (Residency 1982, M.P.H. 1993) is an internationally recognized scientist, educator and clinician in the area of diabetes. He has contributed significantly to clinical diabetes and to diabetes epidemiology, specifically in the areas of treatment, surveillance, screening and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Dr. Herman received his medical degree from Boston University in 1979. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, as well as a residency in preventive medicine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. After serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, he returned to the U-M to pursue fellowship training in endocrinology and metabolism and in diabetes epidemiology. He joined the Michigan faculty as assistant professor of internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology from 1987 to 1991, then returned to the CDC as chief of the Epidemiology and Statistics Branch in the Division of Diabetes Translation. In 1995, Dr. Herman returned to the U-M as associate professor of internal medicine and epidemiology and as Associate Medical Director of M-CARE. He was promoted to full professor in 2000. For several years, Dr. Herman served as the interim director of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, and, in 2005, became the center’s permanent director.
In the 1980s, Dr. Herman wrote some of the first treatises linking lifestyle factors to diabetes and its complications and his model foretold the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States. More recently, Dr. Herman has been involved in clinical trials defining effective treatment and prevention strategies for diabetes and in intervention studies to translate those treatments into routine clinical practice.