It bears repeating how unclear it is who the ADA actually _is_. If it's not governed by the president elect, Who Governs?
(The question appears in varying degrees to all academic professional associations, but this case seems particularly odd)
Sebastian Karcher
Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair