CME Conference on December 7-9, 2023
Hilton Universal Hotel Los Angeles
555 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA 91608
Live In-Person and On-Demand Available
#WCIRDC2022
Faculty - as of 08/09/17
Faculty
2022 Faculty
Yehuda Handelsman
MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, 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
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
Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief Diabetes Division
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Gregg C. Fonarow
MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Eliot Corday Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science
Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center,
Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center Co-Director, UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program Chief, UCLA Division of Cardiology David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA
Los Angeles, California
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
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
Petter Bjornstad, MD
Assistant Professor of Endocrinology
and Renal Diseases and Hypertension University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado
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
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
Jonathan E. Campbell
Jonathan Campbell, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Sonia Caprio, MD
Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Paul Franks
MD, PhD, MPhil, MS, FTOS
Head, Translational Medicine Scientific Director in Medical Science, Novo Nordisk Foundation Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor and Deputy Director of Genetic Epidemiology Lund University Diabetes Centre
Malmö, Sweden
Juan Pablo Frias, MD
Medical Director and Principal Investigator
Velocity Clinical Research
Los Angeles, California
Luigi Gnudi, MD, PhD
Professor of Diabetes and
Metabolic Medicine
Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
King's College London
London, England
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
Jennifer Green, MD
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Stephen Greene, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor,
Division of Cardiology
Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Kevin Grove, PhD
Scientific Vice President
Global Drug Discovery
Novo Nordisk
Seattle, Washington
George Grunberger
MD, FACP, MACE
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, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Chris K. Guerin, MD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Tri-City Medical Center at Oceanside, California
Founder-Advanced Metabolic
Care and Research
Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California
at San Diego
Chair Past President’s Committee for CACE and Board of Directors
San Diego, California
Martha Gulati
MD, MS, FACC, FAHA,
FASPC, FESC
Director, Preventive Cardiology
Associate Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center Associate Director, Preventive and Cardiac Rehabilitation Center Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine
& Research Smidt Heart Institute at
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
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
Eduardo Grunvald
MD, FACP
Medical Director, Center for Advanced Weight Management Director, Obesity Medicine UCSD Bariatric and Metabolic Institute Division of General Internal Medicine Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery Digestive Diseases Clinic San Diego, California
Kevin Hall, PhD
Senior Investigator
Integrative Physiology Section
Laboratory of Biological Modeling National Institute of Diabetes
Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Bethesda, Maryland
Naomi M. Hamburg, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Boston University
School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Afshan Hameed, MD
Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Clinical Professor of
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
UC Irvine Medical Center
UCI Health Irvine, California
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 E. Kahn, MD
Division of Metabolism,
Endocrinology and Nutrition
Department of Medicine
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
John P. Kirwan
MSc, PhD, FACSM
George A. Bray, Jr. Endowed Super Chair in Nutrition Executive Director Pennington Biomedical Research Center Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Samuel Klein, MD
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief Scientific Officer,
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Washington University
School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri
Marta Koch, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Diabetes
& Endocrinology Former Editor,
Cell Press Journal PhD Alumni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine
London, England
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
Ronald Krauss, MD
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
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-Westside Medical Imaging Director of Clinical Research-Westside Medical Associates of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Mark Kearney
MBChB, MRCP, 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
Derek Leroith, MD, PhD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Director of Research Division of Endocrinology Diabetes
and Bone Disease
Department of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mt 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
Rohit Loomba, MD
Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Vice Chief of Gastroenterology Director of Hepatology
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, California
Alan Maisel, MD
Co-founder, CMO
and Chairman of the Board
Brainstorm Medical
San Diego, California
Lawrence Mandarino, PhD
Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Endocrinology Director, UAHS Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, Arizona
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
Vincent Marion, PhD
President & CEO, AdipoPharma
Deputy Director, Inserm/Laboratory
Medical Genetics UMR_S 112
Grand Est, France
Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Christian W. Mende
MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California
Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS,
FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Epidemiology
Associate Director of
Preventive Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Shivani Misra
MD, MBBS, BMedSci, MSc, PhD
Consultant Physician in
Diabetes & Metabolic Medicine,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer,
Imperial College London
London, England
Erik Magnus Ohman
MD, FRCPI, FESC, FACC, FSCAI
Vice-President Global Development
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, California
Jane R Parnes, MD
Executive Medical Director Therapeutic Area Head General Medicine, Early Development Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA
Richard E. Pratley, MD
Samuel E. Crockett Chair in Diabetes Research
Medical Director
AdventHealth Diabetes Institute
Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead
AdventHealth Translational Research Institute
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Orlando, Florida
Peter Rossing, MD, DMSc
Professor
Department of Clinical Medicine
University of Copenhagen
Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
Herlev, Denmark
Alan R. Sinaiko, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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
Martin Van Eickels, MD
Co-founder, CMO and Chairman of
the Board Brainstorm Medical
San Diego, California
Matthew R. Weir, MD
Professor and Chief
Division of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Max Petersen, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow,
Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism, & Lipid Research
Washington University
School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri
Peter Reaven, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
Touchstone Diabetes Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Bart Staels, PhD
Full Professor, University of Lille
Director of Inserm UMR1011
European Genomics Institute
for Diabetes Institute Pasteur de Lille
Lille, France
Ali Tavakkoli, MD
Chief, Division of General and GI Surgery Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Michelle Van Name, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
in Endocrinology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Helen Yeh, PhD
Vice President, CVRM Therapy Area Biopharmaceuticals Medical AstraZeneca United States
Jorge Plutzky, MD
Director, Preventive Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
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
Gerald I. Shulman, MD, PhD
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
Marc Taub, PhD
Divisional Vice President,
Technical Operations
Abbott Diabetes Care
Alameda, California
Robert D. Toto, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Dean Translational Science
and Education
University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Karol E. Watson, MD, PhD
Attending Cardiologist and
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Director of the UCLA Women’s Cardiovascular Health Center UCLA
Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Health Program Co-Director of the UCLA Program in Preventive Cardiology Director of the UCLA Fellowship Program in
Cardiovascular Diseases
Los Angeles, California
Paul Zimmet
AO, MD, PhD
Professor of Diabetes
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
