Leadership

Nicolas Cuttriss, MD, MPH, FAAP

 

Founding Director, CEO
ECHO Diabetes Action Network 

Nicolas Cuttriss, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a social entrepreneur and a practicing pediatric endocrinologist and public health professional with a unique dedication to health disparities and improving the quality of life of people living with diabetes. He currently serves as Founding Director and CEO of the ECHO Diabetes Action Network after serving as Director of Project ECHO Diabetes and Project ECHO Diabetes in the Time of COVID-19 at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Cuttriss served as the first pediatric endocrinologist for the University of New Mexico Project ECHO Institute ENDO teleECHO clinic, designed to democratize diabetes specialty knowledge by empowering primary care clinicians to care for patients with complex diabetes who lack access to routine diabetes specialty care. Clinically, Dr. Cuttriss founded ENDO Diabetes & Wellness, a medical practice specializing in diabetes and telehealth where he also supports and consults with medical groups and hospital systems around the country to address barriers to routine diabetes specialty care.

Dr. Cuttriss has over 25 years of leadership experience with citizen sector organizations, and his leadership in the conceptual design and implementation of grass-roots health outreach and training programs has gained international attention. While in high school, and after witnessing the lack of education for children and families living with diabetes in Latin America, Dr. Cuttriss received start-up funding from Ashoka’s Youth Venture and founded the global health volunteer organization AYUDA (American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad). Dr. Cuttriss developed an innovative peer-based service learning delivery model in diabetes for training, placing, and supervising student volunteers abroad. Cuttriss has supported diabetes outreach initiatives in over 10 countries, trained and placed over 700 students abroad, and raised and delivered over $10 million dollars in program services. Dr. Cuttriss currently serves as Chairman of the Board of AYUDA and volunteers his time with AYUDA internationally and nationally. 

Dr. Cuttriss received his bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical and public health degrees from the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and his fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at the Jackson Memorial Hospital-University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Program, where he also served on faculty in public health sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine during and after his training. After completing his training, Dr. Cuttriss focused his attention towards better understanding disparities of care in diabetes and alternative approaches to providing a more practical and efficient model of delivery of care, as well as empowerment to children and their families dealing with chronic pediatric endocrine conditions.


Linda G. Baer, MSPH, CHCP

Co-Founder & COO
ECHO Diabetes Action Network

Linda G. Baer, MSPH, CHCP, the Co-Founder and COO of ECHO Diabetes Action Network, is an adult education and public health professional. She has been in the field of continuing medical education (CME) for over 20 years, and has led CME departments at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School and Stanford University. Her expertise in creating education based on adult learning principles has led to the development of thousands of CME programs. While the Director of CME for Stanford, she built online programs that are nationally recognized for their innovation. 

Her passion for improving healthcare and quality of life for people with diabetes is personal, as she was diagnosed with T1D at age 3, and at the age of 5 was asked to present at grand rounds about what life was like with diabetes and what people with diabetes needed from their clinicians. Linda has served as the Director of ECHO Research & Education and Lead Health Coach for Project ECHO Diabetes, and the Director of Education for Project ECHO Diabetes in the Time of COVID-19 and ACEs Aware ECHO at Stanford University. She has started diabetes camping programs for youth in multiple Latin American countries, worked in clinical research on developing methods to transplant beta-cells without the use of immunosuppressors, and has served on the boards of multiple diabetes focused organizations. She received her degrees from Brown University and the Harvard School of Public Health.