In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Sylvia Ley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about her overall message of a balanced, all-encompassing diet for people with diabetes, as recommended by medical experts.

In part 4, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Sylvia Ley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about alternative proteins that are healthier options for people with diabetes.

Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, is the Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York. Previously, he was the inaugural Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center. He is also Senior Faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about transgender medicine and the role of endocrinology in treating transgender patients.

In this Exclusive Interview, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about transgender medicine and the approach to transgender care.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the need to understand the evidence for and approach to transgender medicine, and strategies for the use of hormones.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about working with transgender patients and the course of a conversation with a new patient.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the number of specialists that can be found and more on the field overall as a specialty.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Joshua Safer talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the potential of hormones to cause diabetes.

Lisa Letourneau, MPH, RD, LDN, is a diabetes researcher, dietitian, and public health professional. As Diabetes and Genetics Clinical Research Manager at the University of Chicago, her work focuses on managing multiple studies related to atypical diabetes, including the largest monogenic diabetes registry in the United States.