2016 CMHC - Chairpersons & Distinguished Faculty

George L. Bakris, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• Director, ASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center
• University of Chicago Medicine
• Chicago, IL

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

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

JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD

• Director, Heart Failure and Transplant
• Professor of Medicine
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Nashville, TN

Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA

• Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine
• University of Mississippi
• Jackson, MS

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP

• Magerstadt Professor of Medicine
• Professor of Medical Social Sciences
• Chief, Div. of Cardiology, Northwestern Univ.
• Feinberg School of Medicine
• Assoc. Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Chicago, IL

Stephen Devries, MD, FACC

• Executive Director
• Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology
• Deerfield, IL

Michael Emmett, MD, MACP

• Chairman of Internal Medicine
• Ralph Tompsett Professor of Medicine
• Baylor University Medical Center
• Professor of Internal Medicine Texas A&M School of Medicine
• Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine UT Southwestern
• Dallas, TX

Henry N. Ginsberg, MD

• Irving Professor of Medicine
• Director, Irving Institute for Clinical & Translational Research
• Columbia University
• New York, NY

Paul Gurny, MBA, MS

• Managing Director
• Essential Seminars for Physicians, LLC
• Sparks, MD

David Joyce, MD, MBA

• Director Educational Programs
• Essential Seminars for Physicians, LLC
• Sparks, MD

Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Director, Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Boston, MA

Peter Libby, MD

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

Paul M. Muntner, PhD

• Professor and Vice Chair
• Department of Epidemiology
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Birmingham, AL

Suzanne Oparil, MD

• Distinguished Professor of Medicine
• Professor of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
• Director, Vascular Biology & Hypertension Program
• Division of Cardiovascular Disease
• Department of Medicine
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Birmingham, AL

Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD

• Corporate Vice President
• Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute
• San Diego, CA

Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH

• 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

Gregg W. Stone, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• Columbia University
• Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education
• Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy
• New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center
• Co-Director of Medical Research and Education
• The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
• New York, NY

Subodh Verma, MD, PhD, FRCSC

• Cardiac Surgeon, St Michael’s Hospital
• Scientist, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science
• and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
• Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology
• University of Toronto
• Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis

Bernard Zinman, MD

• Director, Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes
• Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes Research
• Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
• Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• Toronto, Ontario