Building Momentum: Taking on the Real “Issues” of Diabetes Care!

As the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun! So, our editorial team was surprised to find that with this issue of Diabetes Care we are celebrating our fourth year guiding the scientific aspects of Diabetes Care . It seems like just yesterday that we were introducing the team and our vision for the direction of the journal. We saw immediately that we had “issues” to address—we could easily fail to keep pace with the rapid advances in our field unless we introduced changes in our format and tactics. By this time you are very familiar with many of the changes we have put in place as we have been diligent in updating you in both the July and January issues (1,2). Thus, with this commentary, we will not review details previously provided. We will, however, focus on two initiatives that continue to grow and flourish and have exceeded our expectations. We are referring to the Diabetes Care Symposia that we coordinate and our special monthly thematic issues. Our Diabetes Care Symposium, held each year during the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Scientific Sessions, has become our editorial team’s signature event. In June 2015, we held our fourth annual symposium, which consisted of two 1-h sessions and a selected overarching theme. The first segment—in a format used for the past 2 years—was entitled “Best of Diabetes Care .” This provided brief overviews of several articles felt by the associate editors to be some of the most noteworthy original research reports published in Diabetes Care during the past year, and it has received rave reviews. The second segment of this year’s program had presentations from four selected original …