Dr. Alyson Myers is the Medical Director of Inpatient Diabetes at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. For the past three years, she has been a member of the Internal Medicine Residency Committee. From 2015-2017, Dr. Myers was accepted as an Empire Clinical Research Investigators Program (ECRIP) fellow. As an ECRIP fellow she was conducting a feasibility study exploring the use of telehealth for lifestyle modification and improved glycemic control in Black and Hispanic patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. She is currently a co-investigator for the 3 year PCORI grant entitled: Patient and Caregiver-Centered Diabetes Telemanagement Program for Hispanic/Latino Patients. She has several publications about diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia. She has been a reviewer for numerous journals including Minerva Endocrinologica, Journal of Affective Disorders and Diabetes Care. Also she is an active member of the Endocrine Society and the American Diabetes Association. In 2018, she was selected as a three-year member of the member of the Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Board In 2019. In 2019 she was awarded as Doctor of the Year by the Professional Organization of Women in Excellence Recognized (POWER) and with the Salzman Award for Quality from the Department of Medicine, Northwell Health. Dr. Myers attended the University of Virginia where she majored in French and minored in Chemistry. She attended SUNY Downstate for medical school, where she was the four year recipient of the President's Award Scholarship. After medical school, she completed a five year combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. During her fourth year, she served as chief resident. After residency, she completed an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern. During fellowship she received a T32 training grant in the area of mood disorders under the mentorship of Dr. Madhukar Trivedi.