Steven B. Leichter, M.D, F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.
Dr. Steven B Leichter is a Center for Health Transformation Advisor on the Columbus, Georgia Project. Dr. Leichter is the President of Endocrine Consultants, PC and the Columbus Research Foundation in Columbus, Georgia. Endocrine Consultants, PC is the largest and most advanced center for diabetes, metabolism, and hormone disorders in Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama. The Columbus Research Foundation is dedicated to the innovation of novel, promising, or newly established advances in medical care for the Western Georgia-Eastern Alabama area. The Foundation works to acquire these advances, adapt them to their geographic area, and teach both to the professional and lay community about these innovations. Since there is no medical school in the area, the activity of this Foundation is intended to provide the development of advanced care concepts and modalities for the geographic area, and the introduction of non-promotional advanced educational concepts for area health professionals.
Dr. Leichter is Medical Director of the Columbus Research Foundation and the diabetes advisor to two health systems. He has been the medical advisor to 3 NASDAQ companies, 9 major corporations, 4 managed care plans, Emory University, Duke University and the Joslin Diabetes Center on the organization of diabetes care. He is also Clinical Professor of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine
Dr. Leichter has more than 70 published scientific papers and book chapters.
He is or has been an editor for managed care and business issues of Clinical Diabetes and Diabetes Interview, Archives of Internal Medicine, Endocrine Practice, American Journal of Managed Care. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization and chaired the committee that wrote the International Plan for Diabetes of the United Nations.
He is the Founder of the Council of Public Health of the American Diabetes Association, and was the originator of the National Diabetes Patient Education Recognition Standards of that organization.
Active in community based initiatives, he developed the Kentucky Diabetes Control Program, the largest public health program thus far in diabetes in the United States.
He was the keynote speaker at the founding of the Chinese Diabetes Association and has been a consultant to the Government of Croatia.
In 2007, The Foundation started the largest community-wide intervention in prediabetes in the United States in collaboration with the Center for Health Transformation. Recently, the Columbus Research Foundation was appointed one of two national sites for a Medicare diabetes screening and education initiative.
Dr. Leichter is a Kentucky Colonel and a Duke of Hazard.
He is married and has 5 children, four grand-children and one mixed breed dog.
