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21st WCIRDC Faculty

20th WCIRDC Faculty

Our esteemed faculty members for 2022.

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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

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Peter Bjornstad, MD

Assistant Professor of Endocrinology

and Renal Diseases and Hypertension University of Colorado

Anschutz Medical Campus

Children’s Hospital Colorado

Aurora, Colorado

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Health Sciences Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

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Luigi Gnudi, MD, PhD

Professor of Diabetes

and Metabolic Medicine

Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

King's College London

London, England

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Stephen Greene, MD, FACC

Assistant Professor,

Division of Cardiology 

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation

Duke University Medical Center

Duke Clinical Research Institute

Durham, North Carolina