Stephen Ponder MD, FAAP, CDE and Chief Medical Officer

Steve Ponder is a board certified pediatric endocrinologist and a Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M with 27 years of professional experience in the management of children with diabetes. He also has 42 years of personal experience with type 1 diabetes diagnosed at age 9.

Beyond his multiple publications, state and national awards, and ongoing community service duties, his most significant accomplishments include 3 nearly grown children and a 22 year marriage to his wife Patsy.

For the past 19 years he has directed one of the largest children’s diabetes camping programs in the country, the Texas Lions Camp in Kerrville, Texas. He has over 28 years of diabetes camping experience in a multitude of settings: residential camps, day camps and retreats.

He has served on many national committees, including the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators, the organization that confers the Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) credential. He served as Chair of that organization and has been actively involved with the group since 1993. He also served on the US Medical Licensing Examination Pediatric Item Writing Committee from 1995-98. He has served on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Native American Child Health (CONACH) since 2005. He has been an invited international speaker on type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children, plus the current epidemic of child obesity.

Dr. Ponder has extensive clinical expertise in insulin pump management of children of all ages. He has also assisted in the development of new technologies which enable real time diabetes management in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Diabetes HouseCall is the culmination of the sum of his extensive clinical experiences which embodies his vision of diabetes care in the 21st century.

While based on a solid doctor-patient-family relationship, Dr. Ponder realizes that diabetes care is essentially a series of informed choices that are best achieved by a well trained and confident patient and family.

Last 5 posts by Steve

• Halloween and Diabetes CAN mix! - October 5th, 2009
• Introducing Healthy Families of South Texas - October 5th, 2009
• Complications 101 - About Kidney Failure - August 23rd, 2009
• The Sleep Bolus - August 18th, 2009
• The Dirty Truth Behind DCCT - August 16th, 2009