Yehuda Handelsman

MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, MACE

Medical Director & Principal Investigator The Metabolic Institute of America

Chair & Program Director, WCIRDC/HiD

Chair & Founder International Committee for Insulin Resistance

Tarzana, California

Monica Aggarwal

MD, FACC

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology

Director of Integrative Cardiology

and Prevention

University of Florida

Shands Hospital

Gainesville, Florida

Richard Bergenstal

MD

Executive Director

International Diabetes Center

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

Deepak L. Bhatt

MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FESC

Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center

Professor of Medicine,

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

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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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Stefan Bornstein

PhD

Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Editor, The Journal of Diabetes
New York, New York

Matthew J. Budoff

MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

UCLA School of Medicine

Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology

Lundquist Institute

Los Angeles, California

Javed Butler

MD, MPH, MBA

Patrick H. Lehan Chair in Cardiovascular Research Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi

Sonia Caprio

MD

Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Conneticut

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David Cherney

CM, PhD, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine - University of Toronto Clinician Scientist - Division of Nephrology, University Health Network Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research InstituteDirector, Renal Physiology Laboratory, University Health Network Toronto, Ontario

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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Maria Rosa Costanzo

MD, FAHA, FACC, FESC

Medical Director, Heart Failure Research, Advocate Heart Institute

Medical Director, Edward Hospital Center for Advanced Heart Failure

Naperville, Illinois

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Kenneth Cusi

MD, FACP, FACE

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Endocrinology,

Diabetes and Metabolism
The University of Florida at Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida

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Jaime A. Davidson

MD, FACP, MACE

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Touchstone Diabetes Research Center

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

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

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Robert H. Eckel

MD, FAHA, FACC

Professor of Medicine, Emeritus

Division of Endocrinology,

Metabolism and Diabetes

Division of Cardiology

Charles A. Boettcher II Endowed Chair in Atherosclerosis, Emeritus

University of Colorado

Anschutz Medical Campus

Past President, American Heart Association President of Science and Medicine, American Diabetes Association
Denver Aurora, CO

Daniel Einhorn

MD, FACP, FACE

Chief, Diabetes & Endocrine Associates

Medical Director

Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute

Clinical Professor

UCSD School of Medicine

La Jolla, California

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Ronald M. Evans

PhD

Professor & Director

Gene Expression Laboratory

Investigator, Howard Hughes Institute

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

La Jolla, California

Brendan Everett

MD, PhD

Divisions of Cardiovascular and

Preventive Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

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

Emily Jane Gallagher

MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine Endocrinology,

Diabetes and Bone Disease,

Associate Program Director for

Internal Medicine Residency

Director of Research Track,

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Department of Medicine,

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

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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

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Francesco Giorgino

MD, PhD

President, Italian Society of Endocrinology

Professor of Endocrinology

Chairman, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation

Head, Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology

and Metabolic Diseases

University of Bari Aldo Moro Chief, Division of Endocrinology University Hospital Policlinico Consorziale

Milano, Italy

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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George Grunberger

MD, FACP, FACE

Chairman, Grunberger Diabetes Institute

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, Prague, Czech Republic

Past President, AACE

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Martha Gulati

MD, MS, FACC, FAHA

Editor-in-Chief, CardioSmart

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Kevin Hall

PhD

Section Chief

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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Kevan Herold

MD

C.N.H. Long Professor of

Immunobiology and of Medicine

Deputy Director, Yale Center for

Clinical Investigation

Yale University

New Haven, CT

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Howard N. Hodis

MD

Harry J. Bauer and Dorothy Bauer Rawlins Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine & Preventive Medicine
Professor of Molecular

Pharmacology and Toxicology
Director, Atherosclerosis Research Unit
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California

Thomas Inge

MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Associate Surgeon-in-Chief
Akers Endowed Chair and Director of Pediatric Surgery
Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado
Denver, Colorado

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

Sanjay Kaul

MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Fellow, American Heart Association Fellow, American College of Cardiology Los Angeles, California

Aaron S. Kelly

PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Center for

Pediatric Obesity Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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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

Marta Koch

PhD

Editor-in-Chief

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

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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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Carolyn Lam

MBBS, PhD, MRCP, MS, FACC, FAMS, FESC

Senior Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Singapore

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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

Derek LeRoith

MD, PhD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Director of Research

Division of Endocrinology

Diabetes & Bone Disease

Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York

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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Gina Lundberg

MD, FACC, FAHA

Associate Professor of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Director,

Emory Women's Heart Center

Atlanta, Georgia

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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

Peter A. McCullough

MD, MPH, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FAHA, FNKF, FCRSA

Professor of Medicine

Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute

Dallas, Texas

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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

Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Dimitri Mikhailidis

MD

Academic Head, Honorary Reader and Honorary Consultant

Department of Molecular Pathology & Clinical Biochemistry

Royal Free Hospital campus,

University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL),

UK Visiting Professor at

Robert Gordon University,

Aberdeen, Scotland

Geltrude Mingrone

MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Catholic University of Sacred Heart

Rome, Italy

Professor of Diabetes and Nutrition

King’s College London

London, United Kingdom

David Nathan

MD

Director, Massachusetts

General Hospital Diabetes Center

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Ajay Nirula

MD, PhD

Vice President, Immunology

Eli Lilly & Co

Neha J. Pagidipati

MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine,

Division of Cardiology

Duke Clinical Research Institute

Durham, North Carolina

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Jorge Plutzky

MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director, Preventive Cardiology

Cardiovascular Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

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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

Eric Ravussin

PhD

Boyd Professor

Director Nutrition Obesity Research Center

Douglas L. Gordon Chair in

Diabetes and Metabolism

Associate Executive Director for

Clinical Science

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Lousiana

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Kausik Ray

Bsc(hons), MBChB, MD, MPhil (Cantab), FRCP (Lon), FRCP (ED), FACC, FESC, FAHA

Professor of Public Health/Consultant Cardiologist

Deputly Director of The Imperial Clinical Trials Unit Head of Commercial Trials

Dept of Public Health and Primary Care

School of Public Health, Imperial College

Chief Clinical Officer and Head of Trials

NIHR ARC National Lead of Cardiovascular Disease

EAS President Elect

London, United Kingdom

Peter Reaven

MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine

University of Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

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Robert Rosenson

MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)

Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine

Director, Cardiometabolics Unit

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

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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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Jerome I. Rotter

MD

Investigator, The Lundquist Institute Director, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences,

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Human Genetics,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, California

Arun J. Sanyal

MBBS, MD

Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Molecular Pathology

Division of Gastronterology,

Hepatology & Nutrition

VCU Medical Center

Director, Education Core, CCTR

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

Philip R. Schauer

MD, FACS, FASMBS

Professor of Metabolic Surgery

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

at Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA

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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

Michael P. Snyder

PhD

Professor and Chair of Genetics

Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California

James Sowers

MD

Director, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Center

Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology and Medicine

Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center University of Missouri School of Medicine

Columbia, Missouri

Bart Staels

PhD

Full Professor, University of Life

Director of Inserm UMR1011

European Genomics Institute  for Diabetes  

Institute Pasteur de Lille

Lille, France

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Katherine R. Tuttle

MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF

Executive Director for Research,

Providence Health Care

Professor of Medicine,

University of Washington

Co-Principal Investigator,

Institute of Translational Health Sciences

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Muthiah Vaduganathan

MD, MPH

Cardiologist,

Brigham and Women's Hospital,

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Gerald Watts

DSc, PhD, DM, FRACP, FRCP

Winthrop Professor Cardio-Metabolic and Internal Medicine

Royal Perth Hospital

University of Western Australia

Perth, Australia

Matthew R. Weir

MD

Professor & Chief

Division of Nephrology

Department of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Paul Zimmet

AO, MD, PhD

Professor of Diabetes

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia