2017 CMHC – Chairpersons & Distinguished Faculty
Chairpersons
Robert H. Eckel, MD
- Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
- Division of Cardiology
- Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Emeritus
- Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Aurora, CO
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
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
Distinguished Faculty
Catherine Davis Ahmed, MBA
- Vice President, Policy and Outreach
- The FH Foundation
- Pasadena, CA
Davida F. Kruger, MSN, APNBC, BCADM
- Certified Nurse Practitioner
- Henry Ford Health System
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Bone and Mineral Disease
- Detroit, MI
Wendy S. Lane, MD
- Clinical Endocrinologist
- Director of Clinical Research
- Mountain Diabetes and Endocrine Center
- Asheville, NC
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
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
JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD
- Director, Heart Failure and Transplant
- Professor of Medicine
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Nashville, TN
Kim K. Birtcher, PharmD
- Clinical Professor
- University of Houston College of Pharmacy
- Houston, TX
Eugene Braunwald, MD
- Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Founding Chairman, TIMI Study Group
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Boston, MA
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
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
Michael H. Davidson, MD*
- Clinical Professor
- Director of the Lipid Clinic
- The University of Chicago
- Pritzker School of Medicine
- Chicago, IL
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
Rajat Deo, MD, MTR*
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pamela B. Morris, MD
- Director, Seinsheimer Cardiovascular Health Program
- Co-Director, Women's Heart Care
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Charleston, SC
Stephen Devries, MD, FACC
- Executive Director
- Nonprofit Gaples Institute
- Deerfield, IL
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA
- Professor of Medicine
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute
- New Orleans, LA
John P. Foreyt, PhD
- Professor, Department of Medicine
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, TX
Roy Freeman, MD
- Professor of Neurology
- Harvard Medical School
- Director, Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston, MA
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
Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM
- Chief Medical Officer and Director, Healthcare Transformation
- IBM Global Healthcare Life Science Industry
- Prof. University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
- Hopewell Junction, NY
Yehuda Handelsman, MD*
- Medical Director and Principal Investigator
- Metabolic Institute of America
- Tarzana, CA
David G. Harrison, MD, FACC, FAHA
- Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
- Professor, Department of Medicine
- Betty and Jack Bailey Chair in Cardiology
- Professor, Department of Pharmacology
- Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Nashville, TN
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
Robert John Hughes
- ChangeWell Inc.
- San Diego, CA
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
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
- Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Chief Academic Officer
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Boston, MA
Anne L. Peters, MD
- Professor, Keck School of Medicine
- Director, Clinical Diabetes Programs
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA
Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD
- Corporate Vice President
- Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute
- San Diego, CA
William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE
- President, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
- Associate Clinical Professor
- University of California
- 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
Julio Rosenstock, MD
- Director, Dallas Diabetes and Endocrine Center
- Clinical Professor of Medicine
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Dallas, TX
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
Johannes Scholl, MD
- Facharzt für Innere Medizin, Ernährungsmedizin, Sportmedizin
- Dr. Scholl Prevention First GmbH
- Frankfurt am Main
- Germany
Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director, Medical Chronobiology Program, Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders
- Departments of Medicine and Neurology
- Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Boston, MA
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
Kumar Sharma, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director, Institute of Metabolomic Medicine
- Center for Renal Translational Medicine
- UC San Diego Health Sciences
- San Diego, CA
Virend K. Somers, MD, PhD
- Alice Sheets Marriott Professor of Medicine
- Mayo Clinic
- Rochester, MN
Mark J. Tager, MD
- CEO
- ChangeWell Inc.
- San Diego, CA
Sotirios Tsimikas, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Director of Vascular Medicine
- University of California San Diego
- La Jolla, CA
Deborah J. Wexler, MD, MSc
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Clinical Chief, MGH Diabetes Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Boston, MA
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**PME presenter and General Session presenter
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