Alumni

Joshua J. Neumiller, PharmD, CDCES, FADCES, FASCP 
Josh Neumiller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at Washington State University. He is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), a Fellow of the Association for Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, and a Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. Josh is past Editor-in-Chief for the ADA journal Diabetes Spectrum, and he served as Chairman of the ADA’s Professional Practice Committee, whose primary responsibility is revising the ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes each year, from 2018-2019. Josh’s research interests involve the management of diabetes and prevention and treatment of diabetes-related complications. Josh was awarded with the 2016 Albert B. Prescott Pharmacy Leadership Award and was named the 2021 ADCES Diabetes Educator of the Year for his work in diabetes care. Josh was the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award, which recognizes a distinguished health professional who has made outstanding educational efforts in the field of diabetes.

Douglas Bell, MD 
Dr. Douglas Bell is a general internist who works at the intersection of biomedical informatics, translational science and health services research. He is a Professor of Medicine at UCLA and he leads the Biomedical Informatics Program of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He is also an adjunct Research Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Bell has conducted pioneering research in electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, online physician education, and the digital divide among health care providers. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Bell completed a medical informatics fellowship at Harvard and MIT and a PhD in Health Services at UCLA.

Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH 
Carol M. Mangione, M.D., M.S.P.H., F.A.C.P. is the Division Chief of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and Professor of Medicine and Public Health. She holds the Barbara A. Levey, MD, and Gerald S. Levey, MD, endowed chair in medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She serves as co-director of the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly, associate director of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), and director of the UCLA CTSI Workforce Development Program. She is also a practicing primary care physician in the UCLA Faculty Practice Group. Dr. Mangione’s areas of expertise include diabetes, diabetes prevention, health disparities, aging, health insurance benefit design, preventive services, and public health policy. She serves as the national study co-chair for the multicenter program Natural Experiments in Translation for Diabetes, which is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and also serves as a member of the Board of Governors for the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Dr. Mangione is a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.