Abstract Committee

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George Grunberger, MD, FACP, MACE, Chair

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

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, MACE

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai Editor, The Journal of Diabetes Fellow
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology
New York, New York

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

Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Program Director of Cardiac CT, Division of Cardiology Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California

Christian W. Mende, MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH, FAHA

Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California

Norman E. Lepor, MD, FACC, FAHA

Founder and Director, National Heart Institute
Past President, California Chapter, American
College of Cardiology
Clinical Professor of Medicine

Geffen School of Medicine UCLA
Attending Cardiologist, Smidt Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Diabetes Division
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Deputy Director, Texas Diabetes Institute
San Antonio, Texas