Richard E. Pratley, MD serves as the Medical Director of the Florida Hospital Diabetes Institute. He is also a senior scientist at the Florida Hospital /Sanford- Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes and a professor at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dr. Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting about the treatment of obesity in people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, as well as the need for more aggressive prediabetes treatment.

In this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about the treatment of obesity in people with not just type 2 diabetes but type 1 as well, and the need for more aggressive prediabetes treatment.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about his work with diabetes patients and the growing epidemic of overweight and obesity among patients with type 1 diabetes.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about prediabetes intervention and options for prediabetes treatment outside of metformin.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about potentially more aggressive treatment of prediabetes.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about his message for health care experts and the use of bariatric surgery in people with type 1 diabetes.

In part 5, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting in Austin, Texas about his anticipated visit to the ADA convention.