
24th WCIRDC Faculty Speakers
Yehuda Handelsman, MD, Chair,
FACP, FNLA FASPC, FAHA, MACE
Medical Director & Principal Investigator
The Metabolic Institute of America
Chair Scientific Advisory Board
DCMi- Diabetes CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Charles Drew University Los Angeles, CA
Tarzana, California

Joseph K. Belanoff, MD
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Corcept Therapeutics

Richard N. Bergman, PhD
Alfred Jay Firestein Chair
in Diabetes Research Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Director of Diabetes and Obesity
Wellness and Research Center
Professor-in-Residence
UCLA Professor Emeritus
USC Los Angeles, California

Daniel I Bisno, MD
Endocrinology Fellow
Research Track at Stanford Health Care
Palo Alto, California

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Editor, The Journal of Diabetes Fellow,
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology
New York, New York
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD
FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP
The Mary and Gordon Cain
Chair in Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Senior Dean of Faculty
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Vice-Chair of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Heart Failure

Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology
Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Program Director of Cardiac CT
Division of Cardiology
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California

Anders L. Carlson, MD
Executive Director
International Diabetes Center
Endocrinologist, Regions Hospital
& HealthPartners Clinics
Medical Director
Diabetes Education Programs
HealthPartners and Park Nicollet
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dianne S. Cheung, MD, MPH
FACE ECNU
UCLA South Bay Endocrine Clinical Trials Program
Principal Investigator
Cureus DOM Proceedings and
DOM Clinical Insights Senior Editor
Clinical Professor
UCLA Division of Endocrinology
Diabetes, and Metabolism
UCLA Health South Bay Endocrine
Torrance, California

Caterina Conte, MD, PhD
​Professor of Internal Medicine
San Raffaele Roma University, Rome Head
Obesity and Obesity-related Cardiometabolic
Complications Research Unit
IRCCS MultiMedica
Milan, Italy

David D’Alessio, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Endocrinology
Duke University
Division of Endocrinology
Durham, North Carolina

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD
​Professor of Medicine
Chief, Diabetes Division
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Deputy Director
Texas Diabetes Institute
San Antonio, Texas

Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Vice Chief | Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Investigator, Center For Outcomes
Research and Evaluation
New Haven, Connecticut

Andrea Dunaif, MD
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Gregg C. Fonarow, MD FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular
Medicine and Science
Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center
Co-Director, UCLA, Preventive Cardiology Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles,California

​Brian J. Feldman, MD, PhD
C.N.H. Long Professor of Pediatrics
Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
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Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, FRCP
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research
Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
Chief, Section of Endocrinology
Tulane University Medical Center
Past President, American Diabetes Association
Science and Medicine
Board of Directors
American Association
of Clinical Endocrinologists
Board of Trustees
American College of Endocrinology
New Orleans, Louisiana

Craig Granowitz, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President
Chief Medical Officer
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals

Robert P. Giugliano, MD
Senior Investigator with the Thrombolysis
in Myocardial Infarction Study Group
Senior Staff Physician
in the Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine
​Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Jennifer B. Green, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina

Barry H. Greenberg, MD
​Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director, Advanced Heart Failure
Treatment Program
UCSD Medical Center
San Diego, California

George Grunberger, MD, FACP, MACE
Chairman, Grunberger Diabetes and Endocrinology
Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine
and Molecular Medicine & Genetics
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Professor, Internal Medicine
Oakland University William Beaumont
School of Medicine
Visiting Professor, Internal Medicine
First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
Past President, American Association
of Clinical Endocrinologists
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Chris K. Guerin, MD
Investigator, Headlands Research AMCR
Co-Founder-Advanced Metabolic Care Clinic
Board of Directors
Past President of CACE
San Diego, California
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Jenny E. Gunton, MBBS, FRACP, PhD
President of the Endocrine Society of Australia
Director of the Centre for Diabetes and Obesity Research
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Chair of Medicine at Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Oksana Hamidi, DO, MSCS
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE
The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami
Hollywood, Florida

Yu Mi Kang, MD, PhD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Division of Endocrinology
Diabetes, and Hypertension
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Naresh Kanumilli, MBBS, FRCGP
​Visiting Professor- Institute of Medicine
University of Greater Manchester
Chair- Primary Care Diabetes & Obesity Society
Community Diabetes Consultant
Manchester University Foundation Trust
Clinical Champion- Diabetes UK
Clinical Network Lead for Diabetes-Greater Manchester
Honorary Clinical Advisor
for Primary care Research- GMCRN
Northenden Group Practice

​Shahzeb Khan MD, MSc
​Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine
Baylor Scott and White Health
Associate Editor
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Heart Failure Reviews & European Society
of Cardiology-Heart Failure
Frisco, Texas

Rohit N. Kulkarni, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Endowed Chair
Head of Section on Islet Cell Biology
Joslin Diabetes Center
Principle Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Affiliate Member
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts

Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
Professor of Medicine (with tenure)
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University of California of San Diego
Founding Director of the
UCSD MASLD Research Center
La Jolla, California

Ildiko Lingvay, MD, MPH, MSCS
​Tenured Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
Peter O’Donnel Jr. School of Public Health
Medical Director
Office of Clinical Trials Management
Executive Director, Diabetes
and Obesity Research Program
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS
​Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
Clinician Investigator
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Seth S. Martin, MD, MHS
Professor and Preventive Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Faculty Member at the
Ciccarone Center for the Prevention
of Cardiovascular Disease
Baltimore, Maryland

Christian W. Mende, MD
FACP, FACN, FASN, FAHA
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California

Jorge Plutzky, MD
Director, Preventive Cardiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Florian Rader, MD, MSc
​Medical Director
Hypertension Center of Excellence
Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center
Interim Director, Noninvasive Laboratory
Smidt Heart Institute
Department of Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California

Jamal S. Rana MD, PhD, FACC
​Chair, Medical Specialties
& Interventional Services
People Operations & Professional Development
Adjunct Investigator
Division of Research
Professor, Department of Clinical Science
Kaiser Permanente
Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Oakland, California

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
​Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Gifford O. Touchstone Jr.
and Randolph G. Touchstone
Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research
Director, Touchstone Diabetes Center
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Director, Welch Center for Prevention
Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology
NHLBI T32 Program
Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Deputy Editor, Diabetes Care

Mahnoosh (Mona) Sharifi, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Yale School of Public Health
Chief, Section of General Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Health Services
and Implementation Research
Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
New Haven, Connecticut

Bart Staels, PhD
Full Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy
University de Lille Director
Inserm UMR1011, Institute Pasteur de Lille
Co-founder of GENFIT
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
Lille, France

Savitha Subramanian, MD
Medical Director, UW Lipid Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Division of Metabolism
Endocrinology and Nutrition
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Nathan D. Wong, PhD
FACC, FAHA, FNLA, MASPC
Professor and Director,
Heart Disease Prevention Program
Mary and Steve Wen Cardiovascular Division
Co-Director, Center for Global
Cardiometabolic Health and Nutrition
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

​Hussein Yassine, MD
​Professor of Neurology, Medicine
and Physiology & Neuroscience
Volk Endowed Professor of Neurology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Emily Zhang, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism
Department of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
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Juleen R. Zierath, PhD
​Professor of Clinical Integrative Physiology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Professor and Executive Director
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center
Basic Metabolic Research at the
University of Copenhagen
Denmark






















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