Dr. Mark Clements, MD PhD is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. He holds the Rick and Cathy Baier family endowed chair in endocrinology and has been supported by numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Helmsley Charitable Trust and JDRF. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific manuscripts. From 2016-2019, he served as Pediatric Chair of the T1D Exchange Clinic Registry. He was a founding member of the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative and served as the Data Science Co-Lead from 2016-2022. He was a member of the multi-national team responsible for the Exercise in Type 1 Diabetes (T1DEXI) study, having created the high-tech data integration system that allowed data collection from multiple wearable devices. His research interests include type 1 diabetes prevention, exercise in type 1 diabetes, behavioral interventions in youth and their parents, clinical trials of advanced technologies and digital therapeutics, and the use of big and small data alike to improve type 1 diabetes care via advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence.