Faculty

Yehuda Handelsman, MD FACP, FACEChair
Medical Director
Metabolic Institute of America
Senior Scientific Consultant
Metabolic Endocrine
Education Foundation
Chair International Committee
for Insulin Resistance
Tarzana, California

David H. Abbott, PhD
Professor, Department of Ob/Gyn
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Joseph T. Bass, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
and Neurobiology and Physiology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Medical Director
UCSF Liver Transplant Program
Division of Gastroenterology
UCSF Medical Center and School of Medicine
San Francisco, California

Sonia Caprio, MD
Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, MD
Assistant Professor
Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research
Washington University
St Louis, Montana

Thomas P. Bersot, M.D., PhD
Associate Investigator
Gladstone Institute of
Cardiovascular Disease
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Assistant Attending in Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital
Consultant in Endocrinology
Lawrence Hospital
New York, New York

Rhoda H. Cobin, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Past President AACE & ACE
New York, New York

Suzanne Craft, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
& Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
School of Medicine
Associate Director, Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center
Seattle, Washington

Samuel W. Cushman, PhD
Chief, Experimental Diabetes
Metabolism and Obesity Section
Diabetes Branch, NIDDK, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Jaime A. Davidson, MD, FACP, MACE 
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
Univeristy of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
President WorldWide Diabetes 
Dallas, Texas

David A. Ehrmann, MD 
Professor of Medicine 
The University of Chicago 
Chicago, Illinois

Daniel Einhorn, MD, FACP, FACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Diabetes and Endocrine Associates
Medical Director, Scripps Whittier Institute for Diabetes
San Diego, California

Garret A. FitzGerald, MD
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Earl Ford, MD, MPH
Team Leader
Epidemiology and Analysis Team
Behavioral Surveillance Branch
Division of Adult and Community Health
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

Peter J. Grant, MD
Professor of Medicine
Head Academic Unit of
Molecular Vascular Medicine
University of Leeds School of Medicine
The Martin Wing, The General Infirmary
Leeds, United Kingdom

Andre T Guay MD, FACP, FACE
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center For Sexual Function/Endocrinology
Lahey Clinic North shore
Peabody, Massachusetts

Richard Hellman,MD

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Miami
Past president, American Association
of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) & ACE
Hollywood, Florida

Michael D. Jensen, MD
Tyson Family Endocrinology
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Endocrine Research Unit
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Steven E. Kahn, MB, Ch.B
Professor of Medicine
Division of Metabolism
Endocrinology and Nutrition
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

David M. Kendall, MD
Medical Director and Chief - Clinical and Professional Services
International Diabetes Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of Minnesota

Sun H. Kim, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Endocrinology, Gerontology,
and Metabolism
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

Ronald M. Krauss, MD
Director, Atherosclerosis Research
Children’s Hospital Oakland
Research Institute
Senior Scientist, Genome
Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, California

Philip Levy, MD, FACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Phoenix Endocrinology Clinics, Ltd.
Phoenix, Arizona

Darren McGuire, MD., MHSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology,
Gerontology and Metabolism
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford, California

John E. Nestler, MD
William G. Blackard Professor of Medicine
Chair , Division of
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Vice Chair, Department of
internal medicine
Medical College of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Jorge Plutzky, MD
Director, The Vascular Disease
Prevention Program
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston Massachusetts

Gerald Reaven, MD
Professor of Medicine
(Active Emeritus)
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Peter Reaven, MD
Director, Diabetes Program
Carl T. Hayden VAMC (111E)
Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Arizona
Research Professor
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona

Ebenhard Ritz, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Division Nephrology
Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Helena W.  Rodbard, MD, FACP, MACE
Medical Director
Endocrine and Metabolic Consultants
Clinical Assistant Professor
Past President AACE & ACE
Rockville, Maryland

Jesse Roth, MD, FACP
Investigator, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Health System 
Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University
Whitestone, New York

Arun J. Sanyal, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Chairman, Gastroenterology
And Hepatology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology,
Hepatology, and Nutrition
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California

Steven E. Shoelson, MD, PhD
Helen and Morton Adler Chair
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Director of Research
Joslin Diabetes Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Alan R. Sinaiko, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Nephrology
University of Minnesota
Medical School
Pediatric Nephrology
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Burton E. Sobel, MD, FACC, FACP
Director, Cardiovascular
Research Institute
The University of Vermont
Consulting Cardiologist
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Burlington, Vermont

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Gifford O. Touchstone Jr.
and Randolph G. Touchstone
Distinguished Chair in Diabetes
Research Director
Touchstone Diabetes Center
The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Ulf Smith, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Gothenburg
Dept of Molecular and Clinical Medicine
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Göteborg, Sweden

Ulf Smith, MD PhD
Professor of medicine
Dept of Molecular and Clinical Medicine
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Göteborg, Sweden

Bart Staels, PhD
Full Professor, University of Lille
Nord de France
Head of Inserm
Lille, France

Julia Steinberger, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Dwan Chair of Pediatric Cardiology
University of Minnesota
Children's Hospital
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fred Turek, PhD
Charles & Emma Morrison Professor
Director , Center for Circadian
Biology & Medicine
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry & Neurology,
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois