In a study of physician performance and racial disparities in diabetes care, HCP Assistant Professor Thomas D. Sequist, MD, MPH, and colleagues, including HCP Professor John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, discovered that white patients with diabetes were significantly more likely than black patients with this condition to achieve control of three important disease markers—hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol, and blood pressure—even when cared for by the same doctor. The study was recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and it received widespread coverage in the major news media. Among the coverage are articles in the New York Times, Time magazine, MedPage (which includes an audio interview with Sequist), the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and the Boston Globe. Read the press release about the study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research.