Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, BETHESDA, MD  –   U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Daniel Hammond, a third-year Pediatric Endocrinology fellow at Walter Reed, recently received multiple competitive awards for his efforts to enhance care for adolescents with diabetes transitioning to care in adult medicine.

Titled "Dia-beating Care Transitions: A Process Improvement Project,” this innovative initiative recently won first-place honors in the quality and performance improvement category in Walter Reed’s Department of Research Program’s annual poster competition and earned the Leona Cuttler Quality Improvement Award at the Pediatric Endocrine Society Annual Meeting on May 16.

Hammond was also selected to lead a workshop at the August 2025 Association for Diabetes Care and Education Specialists Annual Meeting, and his project will be featured in the next Defense Health Agency Clinical Investigation Program Annual Report.

“I am honored by the local and national awards for the process improvement project I was able to lead at Walter Reed,” Hammond said. “The emerging adult period as children get ready to leave their parent’s home and are developing their own independence can be especially difficult for patients with chronic medical conditions. These awards bring greater awareness of this vulnerable time, and the recognition will help this project continue to move forward and to expand the tools we created to benefit more children with other chronic medical conditions,” he added.