Yehuda Handelsman

MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, MACE

Medical Director & Principal Investigator, Metabolic Institute of America

President, Diabetes, CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute (DCMi)

Chair & Program Director WCIRDC
Tarzana, California 

Muhammad Abdul-Ghani

MD, PhD

Division of Diabetes University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas

Dale Abel

MD, PhD

Professor & Head

Internal Medicine

University of Iowa

Carver College of Medicine

Iowa City, Iowa

Joseph K. Belanoff

MD

Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Corcept Therapeutics

Richard 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

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

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Matthew J. Budoff

MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

UCLA School of Medicine

Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology

Lundquist Institute

Los Angeles, California

Sonia Caprio

MD

Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Conneticut

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Robert J. Chilton

DO, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Department of Medicine

Division of Cardiology

The University of Texas

Health Science Center

San Antonio, Texas

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Ralph A. DeFronzo

MD

Professor of Medicine

Chief, Diabetes Division

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

Deputy Director, Texas Diabetes Institute

San Antonio, Texas

Mohamed A. Eid

MD, MPH, MHA

Head of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs
Cardio-Renal-Metabolism & Respiratory Medicine 
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Daniel Einhorn

MD, FACP, FACE

Chief, Diabetes & Endocrine Associates

Medical Director

Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute

Clinical Professor

UCSD School of Medicine

La Jolla, California

Ronald M. Evans

PhD

Professor & Director

Gene Expression Laboratory

Investigator, Howard Hughes Institute

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

La Jolla, California

Michael E. Farkouh

MD

Peter Munk Chair in Multinational Clinical Trials Director, Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence, University of Toronto Vice-Chair Research & Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sergio Fazio

MD, PhD

Chair, Scientific Council - CV/Metabolic
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
New York, New York

Vivian A. Fonseca

MD, FRCP

Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology

Assistant Dean for Clinical Research

Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes

Chief, Section of Endocrinology

Tulane University Health Science Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

W. Timothy Garvey

MD

Butterworth Professor

Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
GRECC Investigator

Birmingham VA Medical Center
Director, UAB Diabetes Research Center
Birmingham, Alabama

Peter J. Grant

MD, FRCP, FMedSci

Professor of Medicine
Honorary Consultant Physician
University of Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Division of Cardiovascular &

Diabetes Research
LIGHT Laboratories
Leeds, United Kingdom

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Jennifer Green

MD

Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina

George Grunberger

MD, FACP, MACE

Chairman, Grunberger Diabetes Institute

Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine & Molecular Medicine & Genetics

Wayne State University School of Medicine Professor, Internal Medicine Oakland University William Beaumont

School of Medicine Visiting Professor, Internal Medicine Past President, AACE

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Chris Guerin

MD

Chief, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Tri-City Medical Center at Oceanside, CaliforniaFounder-Advanced Metabolic Care and ResearchVoluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSDChair Past President’s Committee for CACE (Clinical Association of California Endocrinologists) and Board of Directors

San Diego, California

Michael A. Hill

PhD

Interim Director, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center
Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine

Columbia, Missouri

Ania Jastreboff

MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Director, Weight Management & Obesity Prevention
Medical Director, Yale Stress Center
New Haven, Connecticut

Paul S. Jellinger

MD, MACE

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Voluntary Faculty

University of Miami,

Miller School of Medicine

The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care

Past President, AACE & ACE

Hollywood, Florida

Steven Kahn

MD

Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, 
Department of Medicine, 
VA Puget Sound Health Care System 
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Mark Kearney

MD

British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research
Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine
Dean of the School of Medicine
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Theodoros Kelesidis

MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Encino, California

David Kendall

MD

Sr. Global Medical Advisor
Zealand Pharma
Westlake Village, California

Samuel Klein

MD

William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine & Nutritional Science

Director, Center for Human Nutrition

Chief, Division of Geriatrics &

Nutritional Science

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Joshua Knowles

MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
Attending Physician, Stanford Center

for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease
Familial Hypercholesterolemia

(FH) Clinic Program Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship ProgramCo-director, Stanford Translational Investigator Program
Stanford, California

Mikhail N. Kosiborod

MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

University of Missouri-Kansas City

School of Medicine

Kansas City, Missouri

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Ronald M. Krauss

MD

Senior Scientist and Director, Atherosclerosis Research
Children's Hospital Oakland

Research Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Rohit Kulkarni

MD, PhD

Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, 
Joslin Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, 
Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Harvard Stem Cell Institute, 
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts

John Leahy

MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine 
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Colchester, Vermont

Norman Lepor

MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI

Past President, California Chapter, American College of Cardiology

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Geffen School of Medicine- UCLA

Attending Cardiologist

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute

Co-director, Cardiovascular Imaging

West side Medical Imaging

Director of Clinical Research

West-side Medical Associates

Los Angeles, California

Philip Levy

MD, MACE

Clinical Professor of Medicine,

University of Arizona College of Medicine

Endocrinologist

Banner University Medical Group

Phoenix, Arizona

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Ildiko Lingvay

MD, MPH, MSCS

Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Endocrinology
Department of Population and Data Sciences
Medical Director, Office of Clinical Trial Management
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Christos S. Mantzoros

MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult.

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine Chief of Endocrinology,

Diabetes and Metabolism

Boston VA Healthcare System

Director of Human Nutrition,

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Editor-in-Chief, Metabolism,

Clinical & Experimental

Boston, Massachusetts

Tracey L. McLaughlin

MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology,

Gerontology, & Metabolism

Stanford Medical Center

Stanford, California

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Christian W. Mende

MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH

Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of California San Diego

La Jolla, California

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Erin Michos

MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

Associate Director

of Preventive Cardiology

John Hopkins School of Medicine

Co-Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Baltimore, Maryland

Andrew Moran

MD, MPH

Director, Global Hypertension Control, Resolve to Save Lives Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

New York, New York

Mazen Noureddin

MD

Director, Cedars-Sinai Fatty Liver Program Los Angeles, California

Richard E. Pratley

MD

Samuel E. Crockett Chair

in Diabetes Research,

Senior Investigator and Diabetes

Program Lead

AdventHealth Translational

Research Institute

Adjunct Professor of Medicine,

Johns Hopkins University

School of Medicine

Orlando, Florida

Peter Reaven

MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine

University of Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

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Paul D. Rosenblit

MD, PhD, FACE, FNLA

Clinical Professor, Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine Co-Director, Diabetes Outpatient Clinic UCI Medical Center, Orange, CA Director, & Site Principal Investigator, Diabetes / Lipid Management & Research Center

Huntington Beach, California

Julio Rosenstock

MD

Director, Dallas Diabetes Research Center
Medical City Dallas
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern

Medical Center

Dallas, TX

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Donna H. Ryan

MD

Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
New Orleans, Louisiana 

Phillip E. Scherer

PhD

Touchstone Diabetes Center

The University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

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Gerald I. Shulman

MD, PhD, FACP, MACE

George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology

Co-Director Yale Diabetes Research Center

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

Alan R. Sinaiko

MD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Division of Pediatric Nephrology

University of Minnesota Medical School

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jay S. Skyler

MD, MACP

Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychology

Deputy Director,

Diabetes Research Institute

University of Miami

Miami, Florida

Laurence Sperling

MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology
Founder, Emory Heart Disease Prevention
Professor of Global Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Pam R. Taub

MD, FACC, FASPC

Director of  Step Family Foundation Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego Health System
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
La Jolla, California

Robert D. Toto

MD

Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Dean Translational Science and Education
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Guillermo Umpierrez

MD, CDE

Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Matthew R. Weir

MD

Professor & Chief

Division of Nephrology

Department of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Phil Zeitler

MD, PhD

Medical Director, 
Children's Hospital Colorado Clinical & Translational Research Center, 
Section Head, Endocrinology
Aurora, Colorado