
21st WCIRDC Faculty
20th WCIRDC Faculty
Our esteemed faculty members for 2022.

Yehuda Handelsman
MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE
Medical Director & Principal Investigator
The Metabolic Institute of America
Chair & Program Director
World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes
& Cardiovascular Disease (WCIRDC)
& Heart in Diabetes (HID)
Chair & Founder
International Committee for Insulin Resistance
Tarzana, California

Peter Bjornstad, MD
Assistant Professor of Endocrinology
and Renal Diseases and Hypertension University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado

Christie M. Ballantyne
MD, FACP, FACC
Chief, Sections of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Professor, Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Physiology Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Zachary T. Bloomgarden
MD, MACE
Clinical Professor Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Editor, The Journal of Diabetes
New York, New York

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

Biykem Bozkurt
MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA
Mary and Gordon Cain ,
Chair and Professor of Medicine
Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development
Senior Associate Editor for Circulation
AHA/ASA Journals
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American
College of Cardiology,
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

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

Robert J. Chilton
DO, FACP, FACC, FAHA,
MACOI, FASCAI
Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

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
Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Luigi Gnudi, MD, PhD
Professor of Diabetes
and Metabolic Medicine
Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
King's College London
London, England

Stephen Greene, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor,
Division of Cardiology
Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina