Boyd E. Metzger

BOYD E. METZGER, M.D. was the Tom D. Spies Emeritus Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Molecular Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and co-author of Gestational Diabetes: A Decade after the HAPO Study.

Metzger earned his undergraduate degree at the University of South Dakota and his M.D. at the University of Iowa, completing a residency at Michael Reese Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship in biological chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. He served on faculty at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for over fifty years and was International Honorary Editor of Endocrine Journal.

Metzger was Principal Investigator of the NICHD/NIDDK-funded Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Study and chaired the IADPSG Consensus Panel that developed diagnostic recommendations for hyperglycemia in pregnancy, with his research focused throughout on gestational diabetes mellitus and its effects on maternal and offspring health.

Boyd E. Metzger’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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