Digestive Diseases News
Spring/Summer 2009

Kranzfelder Appointed Director of NIDDK Office of Communications and Public Liaison

Kathy Kranzfelder has been named director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL). As director, Kranzfelder will serve as a member of the NIDDK’s senior leadership team and provide advice and guidance on external communications to the NIDDK director and the Institute.

Kranzfelder came to the NIDDK to cover “intramural,” or on-campus, basic and clinical research from a similar post at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. In 1993, she was named director of the NIDDK’s national health information clearinghouses and in 1994, she launched the NIDDK’s website—one of the first Institute websites at the National Institutes of Health.

As OCPL director, Kranzfelder will oversee staff managing the NIDDK’s response to the media, its online health information for the public, and its other award-winning national education and information programs, which include the National Diabetes Education Program, the National Kidney Disease Education Program, and the Weight-control Information Network. In addition, she will continue to serve as director of the NIDDK’s three national information clearinghouses until a successor is found.

To learn more about the NIDDK Information Clearinghouses, visit www.niddk.nih.gov.

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NIH Publication No. 09–4552
July 2009