NEW ORLEANS -- In the wake of clinicians and researchers being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting here, at least two of the organization's leaders have resigned.
President-Elect Jennifer Green, MD, and Scientific Sessions Planning Committee Chair Mark Atkinson, PhD, have both left their positions with ADA, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today.
Reports of at least two additional experts abdicating their positions with ADA could not be confirmed as of press time.
The resignations come amid a flood of support for the five experts -- referred to as the "New Orleans five" -- who were kicked out of the meeting for sharing printed copies of an editorial in the ADA's flagship journal Diabetes Care.
Dozens of attendees walked out of the presidential plenary on Sunday morning, during which ADA Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Rita Kalyani, MD, and ADA President of Medicine & Science Enrique Caballero, MD, were set to speak. They held a sign that read, "We stand with science."
