Dr. Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH is a practicing adult endocrinologist, Associate Professor of Medicine-Endocrinology, Associate Director of the Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Director of the Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program, and Director of Type 1 Diabetes programs, and Director of the Pilot and Feasibility Program of the NY-CDTR at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
Dr. Agarwal is also a health equity and health services researcher with funding from the NIH-NIDDK, JDRF, and Helmsley Charitable Trust. Her work focuses on the impact of social determinants of health on diabetes, type 1 diabetes technology, and tests new models of healthcare redesign to address unmet social, psychological, and medical needs to achieve health equity. She has expertise in health equity and health service redesigns, clinical trials, mixed methods evaluation, human-centered design methodology, and quality improvement.
She serves on the American Diabetes Association Healthcare Disparities Committee, and the Endocrine Society’s Innovative Models in Diabetes Care Task Force as well as the Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee (APOCC). Her work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. She has received several awards for her work by the American Diabetes Association, Helmsley Charitable Trust, and Type 1 Diabetes Exchange.