Author Archives: Jess Williams and Kenrik Duru

About Jess Williams and Kenrik Duru

Dr. O. Kenrik Duru is a primary internist and health services researcher at UCLA. His research focuses on supporting shared decision making in diabetes prevention as well as studying system-level approaches to improve management of diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

Natural Experiments for Diabetes

Over the past two decades, research has helped identify ways to reduce complications among people with diabetes and laid the foundation for primary prevention. However, prevention and treatments are still unequally applied, and social, economic, and age-related disparities persist. The June 2020 supplement issue of Medical Care argues for and presents the results of natural… Read More »