2013 Chairpersons & Distinguished Faculty

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

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

Caroline M. Apovian, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• Boston University School of Medicine
• Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management
• Boston Medical Center
• Boston, MA

Harold E. Bays, MD

• Medical Director/President
• Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis
• Research Center, Inc.
• Louisville, KY

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

Eliot A. Brinton, MD

• Director, Atherometabolic Research
• Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research

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

Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH

• Norman S. Coplon/Satellite Healthcare
• Professor of Medicine
• Chief, Division of Nephrology
• Stanford University School of Medicine

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

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

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

Vivian Fonseca, MD

• Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
• Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
• Chief, Section of Endocrinology
• Tulane University Health Sciences Center

Ken Fujioka, MD

• Director, Nutrition and Metabolic Research
• Director, Center for Weight Management
• Department of Endocrinology
• Scripps Clinic

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

Robert A. Harrington, MD

• Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
• Chairman of the Department of Medicine
  Stanford University
• Stanford, CA

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

C. Ronald Kahn, MD

• Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Chief Academic Officer
• Joslin Diabetes Center
• 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

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

Peter Libby, MD

• Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Cardiovascular Specialist
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Boston, MA

Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

• Consultant Cardiologist
• Chief, Division of Nutrition &
  Preventive Medicine William Beaumont Hospital
• Clinical Professor of Health Science
• Oakland University
• William Beaumont School of Medicine
• Consultant Cardiologist

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

Patrick M. Moriarty, MD

• Director, Atherosclerosis/LDL-Apheresis Center
• Professor of Medicine
• University of Kansas Medical Center
• Kansas City, KS

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

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

Jorge Plutzky, MD

• Director
• Vascular Disease Prevention Program/Lipid Clinic
• Co-Director, Preventive Cardiology
• Cardiovascular Division
• Brigham and Women's Hospital

Gary A. Puckrein, PhD

• President and Chief Executive Officer
• National Minority Quality Forum
• Washington, DC

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

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

Steven Smith, MD

• Scientific Director
• Translational Research Institute
• Professor
• Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute

Evan A. Stein, MD, PhD

• Director Emeritus
• Metabolic & Atherosclerosis Research Center

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

Sotirios Tsimikas, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• Director of Vascular Medicine
• University of California San Diego
• La Jolla, CA

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