2017 CMHC – Chairpersons & Distinguished Faculty

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

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

Jamy D. Ard, MD

• Assoc. Professor, Div of Public Health Sciences
• Dept. of Epidemiology & Prevention
• Wake Forest School of Medicine
• Co-Director, Weight Management Center
• Medical Director, Medical Weight Loss Program
• Wake Forest Baptist Health
• Winston-Salem, NC

JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD

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

Eugene Braunwald, MD

• Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic
• Harvard Medical School
• Chairman, TIMI Study Group
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Boston, MA

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

David A. Calhoun, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• Medical Director, Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Birmingham, AL

Janet M. de Jesus, MS, RD

• Program Officer, Implementation Science
• Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Bethesda, MD

Stephen Devries, MD, FACC

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

John P. Foreyt, PhD

• Professor, Department of Medicine
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Houston, TX

Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS

• Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Molecular and Integrative Physiology
• University of Michigan
• Kellogg Eye Center
• Ann Arbor, MI

Yehuda Handelsman, MD*

• Medical Director and Principal Investigator
• Metabolic Institute of America
• Tarzana, CA

Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD

• Chair, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
• Vice Chair, Translational Research, Lerner Research Institute
• Section Head, Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation
• Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Prevention
• Cleveland Clinic
• Cleveland, OH

Barbara Kahn, MD

• George R. Minot Professor of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
• Boston, MA

Davida F. Kruger, MSN, APNBC, BCADM

• Certified Nurse Practitioner
• Henry Ford Health System
• Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Bone and Mineral Disease
• Detroit, MI

Anne L. Peters, MD

• Professor, Keck School of Medicine
• Director, Clinical Diabetes Programs
• University of Southern California
• Los Angeles, CA

William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE

• President, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
• Associate Clinical Professor
• University of California
• San Diego, CA

Julio Rosenstock, MD

• Director, Dallas Diabetes and Endocrine Center
• Clinical Professor of Medicine
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Dallas, TX

Johannes Scholl, MD

• Facharzt für Innere Medizin, Ernährungsmedizin, Sportmedizin
• Dr. Scholl Prevention First GmbH
• Frankfurt am Main
• Germany

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

Virend K. Somers, MD, PhD

• Alice Sheets Marriott Professor of Medicine
• Mayo Clinic
• Rochester, MN

Sotirios Tsimikas, MD

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