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Close Concerns

Close Concerns provides consulting services on diabetes and obesity to a wide range of established and start-up corporate clients, including pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. Close Concerns also publishes Closer Look, a daily newsletter focused on clinical and commercial developments in the field, and produces special reports on products and trends influencing diabetes and obesity. They attend 40+ medical conferences and meetings per year globally that focus on diabetes and obesity. Close Concerns publishes diaTribe, an online newsletter for patients with diabetes with 15,000 subscribers. Each quarter, Close Concerns surveys thousands of patients in order to stay on top of patient preferences. Close Concerns also has strong relationships with many of the leading researchers and clinicians in diabetes and obesity. www.closeconcerns.com

Council Members

There are 2 experts at Close Concerns

Kelly Close, President

Kelly CloseWhat is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

President

Mark Yarchoan, Consultant

Mark YarchoanWhat is a GLG Educator?|GLG Educators have qualified for GLG Member Programs and are therefore eligible to participate in ongoing in-depth consulting projects with GLG clients.

Consultant

Top Study Groups

Study Groups are clusters of experts with similar progessional backgrounds, indsutry expertise, experience level, job function, geography, and other characteristics. These are the top Study Groups members of Close Concerns belong to.

Study Group Name No. Members
Experts in the Leisure & Lodging Council 4887
Experts in the Automotive Council 3422
Physicians who Treat Diabetes (US) 466
Medical Geneticists (US) 85
DexCom's Continuous Glucose Monitoring System Experts 27

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News Analyses

GLG News analyses are expert commentaries on industry news and events. Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.

Novo Nordisk's Liraglutide Wins in Obesity Too

October 29, 2009

Kelly Close, President, Close Concerns

Major Turnaround- NEJM VADT Correction Shows MVC Benefits of Intensive Control

October 19, 2009

Kelly Close, President, Close Concerns

LEAD-6 Extension Trial Results Announced-- Look Positive for Novo Nordisk

October 17, 2009

Kelly Close, President, Close Concerns

Updates on Januvia

October 5, 2009

Kelly Close, President, Close Concerns

Afresa suppresses gluconeogenesis more readily than Humalog or Exubera

October 2, 2009

Kelly Close, President, Close Concerns

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