- February 24, 2011 – Edwin B. Fisher, PhD, University of North Carolina - “Social Support – Powerful but What is It? Applications through peer support in diabetes”
- March 17, 2011 – Alan R. Shuldiner, PhD, University of Maryland - “Genetics of the Metabolic Syndrome: Lessons from a Founder Population”
- April 7, 2011 – Kathryn M. Haskins, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver, - “Autoreactive CD4 T cells and their Autoantigens in Type 1 Diabetes”
- May 19, 2011 – Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, University of Tennessee (Memphis) – “Biology of Ethnic Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes”
- June 16, 2011 – Marcela Frazier, OD, MPH, FAAO, UAB (Presentation by DRTC Pilot Feasibility Awardee) – “Using Radio Drama for Diabetes Prevention!”
- September 29, 2011 – Christopher B. Newgard, PhD, Duke University - “Metabolomics applied to chronic disease mechanisms”
- October 27, 2011 – Helen Hobbs, MD, University of Texas Southwestern – “Genes, environment and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease”
- November 17, 2011 – Young-Bum Kim, PhD, Harvard University – “Role of Rho-kinase in insulin and leptin action”