Jeanette Girard, DO, Receives CDI & Department of Internal Medicine's Quality Improvement Award

CDI partners with the Department of Internal Medicine on a new Faculty Quality Improvement Award focused on diabetes.

The Caswell Diabetes Institute is pleased to partner with Michigan Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine to fund the first diabetes-focused Quality Improvement Pilot Award, an important step in supporting innovative projects that improve care for people living with diabetes and related metabolic conditions.

We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Jeanette Girard on being selected as the 2026 recipient of the Caswell Diabetes Institute and Department of Medicine’s Faculty Quality Improvement Award. Her project, “Improving Screening for Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in MEND,” was chosen by the review committee from a highly competitive pool of outstanding submissions.

Dr. Girard’s work reflects the kind of patient-centered, systems-focused improvement that this new award is designed to encourage. By advancing screening for metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease among patients with type 2 diabetes, her project has the potential to strengthen clinical care and improve outcomes for a population at significant risk.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Girard on this well-deserved recognition and in celebrating this exciting new partnership between the CDI and the Department of Internal Medicine

CDI plans to offer this award annually and expand eligibility next year beyond the Department of Internal Medicine, broadening support for diabetes-focused quality improvement initiatives across Michigan Medicine. Additional information about the award and future funding opportunities is available on the Caswell Diabetes Institute funding opportunities page.

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