Diana McNeill is Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina . She was the program director of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency program from 2001-2011 and became the inaugural Director of Duke AHEAD (Academy of Health Professions Education and Academic Development) in 2014. She has won numerous teaching awards , including Master Clinician Educator at Duke in 2006. She is a Master in the American College of Physicians (ACP) and in 2020 received the Dema Daley Award from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine , honoring a member recognized nationally as an education leader. She was recognized in 2021 with the North Carolina ACP Laureate Award. She was recognized by the Duke Medical Alumni Association with the Distinguished Service Award in 2023 and has been honored by a grateful patient’s family with the Lindquist Presidential Distinguished Chair Professorship. The professorship will go to a physician-scientist of exceptional eminence in endocrinology within the School of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition.