Wendy Lane MD

Wendy S. Lane, MD, is a clinical endocrinologist in private practice and the director of research at the Mountain Diabetes and Endocrine Center in Asheville, NC.

A graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, Dr. Lane also holds undergraduate degrees in English literature and biology from Yale University, New Haven, CT. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, followed by a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Dr. Lane has been a principal investigator or subinvestigator for multiple clinical trials for new and investigational oral and injectable agents and insulins for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as glucose sensor and insulin pump trials. She has also served as the author and principal investigator of several investigator-initiated trials of U-500 insulin via insulin pump and trials involving combinations of GLP-1 agonist therapy with insulin. Dr. Lane has conducted hyperinsulinemic euglycemic and hypoglycemic clamp studies evaluating the effect of hypoglycemia on the pituitary-gonadal axis in adult men.

An author or co-author of 11 original articles in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Lane has delivered numerous lectures on all aspects of diabetes management, especially high-dose insulin therapy and insulin pump therapy, at regional, national and international meetings. She has also served as medical advisor and physician at Camp Coqui, a summer camp for children with diabetes in western NC.