 The author of many papers on diabetes, Hurwitz was the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Pfizer Award for the Outstanding Clinician in Diabetes.Hurwitz was head of the diabetes clinic at Boston City Hospital for 20 years, where he received one of the first National Institute of Health grants for training diabetes fellows, and was President of the New England Diabetes Association in 1965.In 1927, David married Pearl Birnbaum (1907-1993), a Radcliffe graduate who went on to become a major advocate for the rights of the mentally handicapped in Massachusetts.