2013 Chairpersons & Distinguished Faculty
Chairpersons
George L. Bakris, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director, ASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center
- University of Chicago Medicine
- Chicago, IL
Christie M. Ballantyne, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Research
- Chief, Section of Cardiology
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
- Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Methodist DeBakey Heart Center
- Houston, TX
Robert H. Eckel, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
- Division of Cardiology
- Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
- Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis
- Director, T32 in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Director, Lipid Clinic, University Hospital
- Aurora, CO
Jay S. Skyler, MD
- Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, & Psychology
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Deputy Director for Clinical & Academic Programs
- Diabetes Research Institute
- Miami, FL
Distinguished Faculty
Benjamin M. Scirica, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital/TIMI Study Group
- Boston, MA
Rajiv Agarwal, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Indiana University School of Medicine & VA Medical Center
- Indianapolis, IN
Caroline M. Apovian, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management
- Boston Medical Center
- Boston, MA
Louis J. Aronne, MD
- Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research
- Medical Director
- Center for Weight Management
& Metabolic Clinical Research - Weill-Cornell Medical College
Harold E. Bays, MD
- Medical Director/President
- Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis
- Research Center, Inc.
- Louisville, KY
David S. H. Bell, MD
- Director, Comprehensive Weight Control Program
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Clinical Professor of Medicine
- Weill-Cornell Medical College
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH
- Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Executive Director
- Interventional Cardiovascular Programs
- Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center
- Boston, MA
Thomas Blevins, MD
- Chief of Endocrinology
- Seton Hospital & St. David's Medical Center
- Director
- Texas Diabetes & Endocrinology
Eliot A. Brinton, MD
- Director, Atherometabolic Research
- Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research
Robert D. Brook, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- University of Michigan
Matthew J. Budoff, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- David Geffen School of Medicine
- Program Director & Director of Cardiac CT
- Division of Cardiology
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Torrance, CA
Sonia Caprio, MD
- Professor
- Yale School of Medicine
- Pediatric Endocrinologist
- Yale Medical Group
Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH
- Norman S. Coplon/Satellite Healthcare
- Professor of Medicine
- Chief, Division of Nephrology
- Stanford University School of Medicine
Robert J. Chilton, DO
- Professor of Medicine
- Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab
- University of Texas Health Science Center
William C. Cushman, MD
- Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine
- Univ., of Tennessee Health Science Ctr. in Memphis
- Chief, Preventive Medicine Section
- Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr. in Memphis
Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director, Div. of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- A. C. Mullins Chair in Translational Research
- Director, General Clinical Research Center
- Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Training Program
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Memphis, TN
Paresh Dandona, MD
- Founder, Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of WNY
- Kaleida Health Chief of the Division of
Endocrinology and Distinguished Professor of Medicine - State University of New York at Buffalo
P. Barton Duell, MD
- Director, Lipid-Atherosclerosis Laboratory
- Director, Lipid Disorders Clinic
- Div., of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Clinical Nutrition
- Oregon Health and Science University
Sergio Fazio, MD, PhD
- The William and Sonja Connor
- Chair of Preventive Cardiology
- Professor of Medicine and Physiology & Pharmacology
- Director, Center for Preventive Cardiology
- Knight Cardiovascular Institute
- Oregon Health and Science University
- Portland, OR
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA
- Professor of Medicine
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute
- New Orleans, LA
Vivian Fonseca, MD
- Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
- Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
- Chief, Section of Endocrinology
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center
JoAnne M. Foody, MD
- Medical Director
- Cardiovascular Wellness Program
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Associate Professor
- Harvard Medical School
Ken Fujioka, MD
- Director, Nutrition and Metabolic Research
- Director, Center for Weight Management
- Department of Endocrinology
- Scripps Clinic
W. Timothy Garvey, MD
- Butterworth Professor and Chair
- Department of Nutrition Science
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- GRECC Investigator & Staff Physician
- Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Director, UAB Diabetes Research Center
- Birmingham, AL
J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH
- Scientific Director
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research
and Information Center - VA Boston Healthcare System
- Chief, Division of Aging
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Thomas D. Giles, MD
- Heart and Vascular Institute
- Tulane University School of Medicine
Robert A. Harrington, MD
- Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
-
Chairman of the Department of Medicine
Stanford University - Stanford, CA
Irl B. Hirsch, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair
- University of Washington Medical Center
- Medical Director
- UWMC Diabetes Care Center
- Seattle, WA
Terry A. Jacobson, MD
- President, National Lipid Association
- Professor of Medicine, Emory University Director
- Office of Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
- Co-Director, Lipid & CV Risk Reduction Program
- Grady Health Systems
- Atlanta, GA
Peter H. Jones, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, TX
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
- Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Chief Academic Officer
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Boston, MA
Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Director, Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Boston, MA
Samuel Klein, MD
-
William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine
and Nutritional Science - Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences
- Director, Center for Human Nutrition
- Washington University School of Medicine
- St. Louis, MO
Mikhail Kosiborod, MD
- Clinical Associate Professor
- University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Cardiologist
- Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Robert Kushner, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Division of General Internal Medicine
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Clinical Director
- Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity
- Medical Director
- Center for Lifestyle Medicine
- Chicago, IL
I-Min Lee, MD, ScD
- Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Associate Epidemiologist
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Libby, MD
- Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Cardiovascular Specialist
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Boston, MA
David Ludwig, MD, PhD
- Director
- New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center Director
- Optimal Weight for Life Clinic
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
- Professor of Medicine
- Vice Chief of Internal Medicine
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Dallas, TX
Darren McGuire, MD, MHSc
- Professor of Medicine
- University of Texas
- Southwestern Medical Center
- Dallas, TX
Luigi Meneghini, MD
- Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- Director, Kosow Diabetes Treatment Center
- Diabetes Research Institute
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Barbara Millen, DrPH, RD
- President, Millennium Prevention, Inc
- Director, Boston Nutrition Foundation, Inc.
Patrick M. Moriarty, MD
- Director, Atherosclerosis/LDL-Apheresis Center
- Professor of Medicine
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Kansas City, KS
David A. Morrow, MD, MPH
- Director, Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group
- Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Sunder Mudaliar, MD
- Staff Physician and Director Diabetes Clinic
- VA San Diego Healthcare System
- Clinical Professor of Medicine
- University of California, San Diego
- San Diego, CA
David Nathan, MD, MPH
- Director, Diabetes Center and Clinical Research Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
E. Magnus Ohman, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- The Kent and Siri Rawson Director
- Duke Program for Advanced Coronary Disease
- Associate Director, Duke Heart Center
- Duke University Medical Center
Anne L. Peters, MD
- Professor, Keck School of Medicine
- Director, Clinical Diabetes Programs
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA
Jorge Plutzky, MD
- Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention Program
- Director, Preventive Cardiology
- Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Boston, MA
Richard E. Pratley, MD
- Director, Florida Hospital Diabetes Institute
- Senior Scientist, Translational Research Institute
for Metabolism and Diabetes - Professor, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
- Winter Park, FL
Gary A. Puckrein, PhD
- President and Chief Executive Officer
- National Minority Quality Forum
- Washington, DC
Daniel Rader, MD
- Cooper-McClure Prof. of Medicine & Pharmacology
- Chief
- Division of Translational Medicine & Human Genetics
- Perelman School of Medicine, Univ., of Pennsylvania
- Associate Director
- Penn's Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics
Paul M. Ridker, MD
- Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Director
- Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Boston, MA
Francesco Rubino, MD
- Professor and Chair
- Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- King's College
- London, UK
Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH
- Chairman, TIMI Study Group
- Lewis Dexter, MD Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Boston, MA
Arya Sharma, MD, PhD
- Professor of Medicine
- Chair, Obesity Research and Management
- University of Alberta
- Clinical Co-Chair
- Alberta Health Services Obesity Program
Daniel Simon, MD
- Director, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
- Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center
- Herman K. Hellerstein Prof. of Cardiovascular Research
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Steven Smith, MD
- Scientific Director
- Translational Research Institute
- Professor
- Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
Laurence S. Sperling, MD
- Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
- Director, The Center for Heart Disease Prevention
- Emory University School of Medicine
Evan A. Stein, MD, PhD
- Director Emeritus
- Metabolic & Atherosclerosis Research Center
Jean-Claude Tardif, MD
- Director, Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre
- Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal
Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD
- Dir., Preventative Cardiology, CGH Medical Ctr
- Prof., Clinical Family and Community Medicine
- Univ. of Illinois College of Medicine
Peoria, Illinois - Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Michigan State Univ. College of Osteopathic Medicine
- East Lansing, MI
Raymond Townsend, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director, Hypertension Program
- University of Pennsylvania
Sotirios Tsimikas, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director of Vascular Medicine
- University of California San Diego
- La Jolla, CA
Tracy Wang, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
- Duke University
Michael A. Weber, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
Carol Wysham, MD
- Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
- University of Washington-School of Medicine
- Section Head, Rockwood Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Spokane, WA
Bernard Zinman, MD
- Director, Leadership Sinai Center for Diabetes
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Professor of Medicine
- University of Toronto
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