Tamara Oser

Tamara K. Oser, MD, is a family physician and Director of the Primary Care Diabetes Lab. She is Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz, and she has practiced in a wide range of primary care settings. She has served on and led committees through the American Diabetes Association, Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Behavioral Research in Diabetes Group Exchange. She is a national expert on implementing diabetes devices into primary care settings and has worked with the American Academy of Family Physicians for over 6 years on numerous initiatives to implement CGM nationally into primary care practices.

Her research focuses on implementing diabetes technologies into primary care settings, use of technology to improve care of people with prediabetes and diabetes, and behavioral research in diabetes. She serves as Lead Principal Investigator of the CONNECT study and has served as a Principal Investigator on NIH, foundation, American Diabetes Association, and industry-funded studies and has published over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Her work in education, research, clinical, and service mission areas has been recognized through awards including the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching three times, inclusion in Best Doctors in America, Dean’s List for Patient Satisfaction Ninety-Ninth Percentile Nationwide, Researcher of the Year, and Excellence in Mentoring.

She is a mom and a spouse to people living with diabetes, and her daughter’s diagnosis with type 1 diabetes at the age of seven led her to transition her career to focus on improving the lives of people with diabetes, including access to evidence-based diabetes technologies.