Steven E. Kahn

Steven Emanuel Kahn (born 1955) is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. He is also Director of the University of Washington Diabetes Research Center and Director of the Diabetes Research Group at VA Puget Sound Health Care System. he received a medical degree from the University of Cape Town in 1978.

He is a recipient of the Endocrine Society Clinical Investigator Award, the Department of Veterans Affairs John B. Barnwell Award, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Albert Renold Award, and the American Diabetes Association Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award.

In June 2026, Kahn and fellow endocrinologists were ejected from annual meeting of American Diabetes Association (ADA), after they handing printed copies of a editorial first authored by him and published in Diabetes Care in April. According ADA, Kahn, Desmond Schatz, Aaron Kelly, Justin Ryder and Irl Hirsch were removed by security staff and police officers because they violated de code of conduct for conferences.