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2025 FACULTY

Yehuda Handelsman, MD, Chair, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE

Medical Director & Principal Investigator
The Metabolic Institute of America
Chair Scientific Advisory Board
DCMi- Diabetes CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute
Chair & Program Director 22nd WCIRDC
Tarzana, California

Jose L. Lopez Batista, MD

Second-year Cardiovascular Disease Fellow
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/JFK Medical Center
Palm Beach, Florida

Stephen J. Greene, MD, Chair, FACC, FHFSA

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Co-Director, Duke Heart Failure Medication Titration Clinic
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
Co-Chair of the 9th Heart in Diabetes
Durham, North Carolina

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI

Director of Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital
Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Stefan D. Anker, MD, PhD, FESC

Professor of (Tissue)Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism
Charité University Medicine Berlin
President of the International Society on
Sarcopenia, Cachexia, and Wasting Disorders
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cachexia,
Sarcopenia and Muscle
Berlin, Germany

Jan N. Basile, MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center
Previous Vice-Chair, Clinical Programs, AHA Council on Hypertension
US National Leader SURPASS-CVOT

Charleston, SC

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

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FHFSA, FAHA, FACC, FESC, FACP

The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine
Senior Dean of Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Heart Failure
Houston, Texas

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

Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor of Medicine
University of Mississippi
President, Baylor Scott, and White Research Institute
Senior Vice President, Baylor Scott, and White Health
Jackson, Mississippi

Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC

Instructor in Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Former Commissioner of Food and Drugs Feb 2016-Jan 2017, Feb 2022-Jan 2025
Former Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco Feb 2015
Member of the National Academy of Medicine
Durham, NC

Robert J. Chilton, DO, FACP, FACC, FAHA, MACOI, FASCAI

Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Associate Program Director, Interventional Cardiology
The University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

Jordana B. Cohen, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mark E. Cooper, AO, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Head, Department of Diabetes
Central Clinical School
Monash University
Senior Endocrinologist, Alfred Health Clinic
Melbourne, Australia

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

Michael E. Farkouh, MD

Peter Munk Chair in Multinational Clinical Trials
Director, Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence
Associate Dean, Research
Professor of Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Los Angeles, CA

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 Medical Center
Past President, American Diabetes Association, Science and Medicine
Board of Directors, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
Board of Trustees, American College of Endocrinology
New Orleans, Louisiana

Katie Garfield, JD

Clinical Instructor and Director, Whole Person Care
Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

W. Timothy Garvey, MD

Charles E. Butterworth, Jr., Professor and University Professor
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Director, UAB Diabetes Research Center
Birmingham, Alabama

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

Peter J. Grant, MBChB, MD, FRCP, FMedSci

Professor of Medicine and Diabetologist
Honorary Consultant Physician,
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,
Division of Cardiovascular & Diabetes Research
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Jennifer B. Green, MD

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology
Faculty Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute Publications Committee
Co-Chair Executive Committee Member for GRADE
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Per-Henrik Groop, MD, DMSc, FRCPE

Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine
Emeritus Chief Physician
Department of Nephrology
University of Helsinki
Helsinki University Hospital
Helsinki, Finland

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FESC

Director of Preventative Cardiology Associate Director
Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center
Associate Director, Preventive and Cardiac Rehabilitation Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Smidt Heart Institute
Principal Investigator, St. James Women Take Heart Project Past CardioSmart
Editor-in-Chief, American College of Cardiology
Los Angeles, California

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE

The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami
Hollywood, Florida

Josephine Harrington, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
A faculty member of CPC Clinical Research
Denver, Colorado

Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD

Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Clinical Chief of the Section of Endocrinology
Medical Director of the Yale Diabetes Center
New Haven, Connecticut

Allison Jamison, MBA

Vice Chair and Treasurer
Family Heart Foundation
Assistant Dean of Admissions
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
Cincinnati, Ohio

Mark T. Kearney, MD, MBChB, MRCP

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

Mohammad Shahzeb Khan, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Plano, Texas

Samuel Klein, MD

Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

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, California

Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult.

Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Boston University School of Medicine
Editor in Chief, Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental
Harvard, Massachusetts

Seth S. Martin, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC

Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Faculty Leader, Barker Firm, Osler Medical Residency
Director, Ciccarone Lipid Clinic & Digital Health Lab
Director, mTECH Center, an AHA SFRN Health Tech & Innovation Center
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
President '23-'35, AHA Maryland Board of Directors
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Darren K. McGuire, MD, MHSc

Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine with Tenure Jere H. Mitchell, M.D.

Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Science Division of Cardiology; Department of Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Lead Physician, Parkland Health Cardiology Clinics Deputy Editor, Circulation

Dallas, Texas

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

Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
Associate Editor of The Journal Diabetes
San Diego, California

Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FASPC

Professor of Medicine
Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology
Division of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Co-Director, IMPACT Center at JHU
Co-Editor in Chief, American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Baltimore, Maryland

Ann Marie Navar, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
UT Southwestern Medical School

Deputy Editor at JAMA Cardiology
Dallas, Texas

Ayodele Odutayo, MD, DPhil

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Clinician Scientist and Nephrologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Ontario

Neha J. Pagidipati, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology,
Duke University School of Medicine
Director, Duke Cardiometabolic Prevention Clinic
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina

Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Divisions of Cardiology and Geriatrics
Medical Director, HFpEF Program
Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar
Principal Investigator - CardioMetabolic Research Unit (CMRU)
Associate Program Director for IM Residency Training
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Tramanh Phan, MD

Assistant Professor
Division of Nephrology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Jorge Plutzky, MD

Director, Preventive Cardiology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Richard E. Pratley, MD

Samuel E. Crockett Chair in Diabetes Research
Medical Director, Advent Health Diabetes Institute
Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead
Advent Health Translational Research Institute
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Orlando, Florida

Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA

Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine and Chief Academic and Scientific Officer
University Hospitals, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
Herman K. Hellerstein MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director Case Cardiovascular Research Institute
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Kausik K. Ray, FMedSci

Immediate Past President European Atherosclerosis Society
Professor of Public Health and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Director of Imperial Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit-Global
Imperial College London
NIHR ARC National CV Lead

Jane EB. Reusch, MD

Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Integrative Physiology
Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Health Research
Anschutz Medical Campus
University of Colorado
Staff Physician and Merit Investigator
The Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC
Aurora, Colorado

Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH

Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, MA

Robert S. Rosenson, MD

Professor of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director of the Metabolism and Lipids Program
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Lance Sloan, MD, MSE, FACE, FASN, FACP, FEAA, FASPC

President, Texas Institute for Kidney and Endocrine Disorders
Department of Clinical Metabolism
Lufkin, Texas
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
Clinical Assistant Professor,
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Sam Houston State University
Conroe, Texas

Laurence Sperling, M.D., FACC, FACP, FAHA, MASPC

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology
Founder, Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention
Professor of Global Health
Hubert Department of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Esra Tasali, MD

Professor of Medicine
Director, UChicago Sleep Center
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Pam R. Taub, MD, FACC, FASPC

Director of Preventive Cardiology
Founder & 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

Raymond R. Townsend, MD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine
Associate Director
The Clinical and Translational Research Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH, FACC, FHFA

Cardiologist and Clinical Trialist
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science
Associate Editor of JACC
US National Ambassador to the ESC Heart Failure Association
Boston, Massachusetts

Matthew R. Weir, MD

Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Henry Klar Yaggi, MD, MPH

Professor of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine)
Vice Chief of Research, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Director, Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

2024 Faculty Members

Yehuda Handelsman

MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE, CHAIR

Medical Director & Principal Investigator The Metabolic Institute of America

Chair Scientific Advisory Board DCMi- Diabetes CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute Chair & Program Director 8th HiD

Tarzana, California

Mikhail N. Kosiborod

MD, FACC, FAHA

CHAIR

Vice President of Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
Executive Director, Cardiometabolic Center Alliance
Director of Cardiometabolic Research and Co-Director of the Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri
Inaugural recipient of the Ben McCallister, MD Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
Kansas City, Missouri

Krishna G. Aragam

MD, MS

Director of Cardiomyopathy Genetics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Harvard Medica School

Boston, Massachusetts

Christie M. Ballantyne

MD, FACC, FAHA

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

Ori Ben-Yehuda

MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine

Director, Cardiovascular Outcomes Group

Sulpizio Cardiovascular Institute

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, California

David D. Berg

MD, MPH

Associate Physician in Cardiovascular Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Investigator in the TIMI Study Group

Boston, Massachusetts

Biykem Bozkurt

MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP

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

Mathew 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

Division of Cardiology Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Deepak L. Bhatt

MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI

Director of Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital
Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

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

Robert S. Busch

MD, FACE

Director of Clinical Research

The Endocrine Group

Albany Medical College

Albany, New York

Javed Butler

MD, MPH, MBA

Professor of Medicine

University of Mississippi
President, Baylor Scott, and White Research Institute
Senior Vice President, Baylor Scott and White Health

Jackson, Mississippi

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

Mark E. Cooper

AO, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Head, Department of Diabetes
Central Clinical School
Monash University
Senior Endocrinologist, Alfred Health Clinic
Melbourne, Australia

Akshay S. Desai

MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program

Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Division,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Ralph A. DeFronzo

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

Deputy Director,

Texas Diabetes Institute

San Antonio, Texas

Michael. J. Domanski

Michael J. Domanski, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
The Echocardiography Laboratory Director
Baltimore VA Medical Center
New York, New York

Michael E. Farkouh

MD, FRCPC, MSc, FACC, FAHA

Associate Dean, Research and Clinical Trials

Professor, Department of Cardiology

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Founder of Worldwide Network for Innovation in Clinical Education & Research

Los Angeles, CA

Katherine A. Gallagher

Professor of Surgery,

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and the Leland Ira Doan Research

University of Michigan

Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Science in the Department of Surgery

Chair of the BTSS NIH-study section

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lee R. Goldberg

MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine),
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Vice Chair, Medicine for Informatics,
Section Chief Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant,
Section of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jennifer B. Green

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

Stephen J. Greene

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cardiologist

Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina

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

Josephine Harrington

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellow

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Mansoor Husain,

MD, FRCPC

Executive Director, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

University Health Network

Toronto, Canada

Silvio E. Inzucchi

Professor of Medicine

Clinical Chief, Section of Endocrinology

Yale School of Medicine

Medical Director, Yale Diabetes Center

Program Director, Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship

Yale-New Haven Hospital

New Haven, Connecticut

Mark T. Kearney

MD, MBCHB, MRCP

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

Paul S. Jellinger

MD, MACE

The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Hollywood, Florida
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami

Sadiya S. Khan

MD, MSc

Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology,
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology),
Physician Scientist, Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Associate Editor, JAMA Cardiology
Chicago, Illinois

Samuel Klein

Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

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 2010-2023

Attending Cardiologist, Smidt Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute

Los Angeles, CA

Lawrence A. Leiter

MD, FRCP, FACP, FACE, FAHA

Professor, Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Director, Lipid Clinic, St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Director, Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre
Associate Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Toronto, Canada

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

Harvard, Massachusetts

Darren K. McGuire

MD, MHSc

Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine with Tenure Jere H. Mitchell, M.D.

Dallas, Texas

Christian W. Mende

MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FAHA

Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of California San Diego

Associate Editor of The Journal Diabetes

San Diego, California

Erin D. Michos

MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

Director of Women Cardiovascular Health Research Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology

Division of Cardiology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Director

IMPACT Center at JHU Co-Editor in Chief American Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Baltimore, Maryland

Neha J. Pagidipati

MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology Duke University School of Medicine Director, Duke Cardiometabolic Prevention Clinic Duke Clinical Research Institute Durham, North Carolina

Jorge Plutzky

MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Director, Preventive Cardiology

Cardiovascular Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Rosario Pivonello

MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Endocrinology

Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery,

Section of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Andrology and Nutrition

University of Naples Federico II

Naples, Italy

Chiadi E. Ndumele

MD, PhD, FAHA

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Director of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Research, Division of Cardiology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Richard E. Pratley

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

Ambarish Pandey

MD, MSCS, FAHA

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Cardiology)
Medical Director, HFpEF Program
Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar
Principal Investigator - CardioMetabolic Research Unit (CMRU)
Associate Program Director for IM Residency Training
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Janani Rangaswami

MD, FACP, FAHA

Chief of Nephrology, Washington DC VA Medical Center

Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine
Chair, Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, American Heart Association
Washington, D.C., Maryland

Lu Qi

MD, PhD

Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology

HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Director of Tulane Personalized Health Institute

Director of Tulane University Obesity Research Center

Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health

New Orleans, Louisiana

Peter D. Reaven

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine
Director of Diabetes Research, Phoenix VA Medical Center
Phoenix, Arizona

Kausik K. Ray

BSc(hons), MBChB, MD, MPhil (Cantab), FRCP (Lon), FRCP (Ed), FACC, FESC, FAHA

Professor, Public Heath in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College London
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College NHS Trust
Director, ICTU-Global (Academic ARO)
London, United Kingdom

Ravi Retnakaran

MD, FRCPC, FCAHS

Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

University of Toronto
Endocrinologist and Clinician-Scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital

Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Beta-cell Preservation, Function and Regeneration

Toronto, Canada

Anjay Rastogi

MD, PhD

Professor and Clinical Chief

Director of UCLA CORE Kidney Health Program

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

Peter Rossing

MD, DMSc

Professor Department of Clinical Medicine

University of Copenhagen

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Herlev, Denmark

Jane E.B. Reusch

Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Integrative Physiology

Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Health Research

Anschutz Medical Campus

University of Colorado

Staff Physician and Merit Investigator

The Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC
Aurora, Colorado

Chrisandra L. Shufelt

MD, MS, FACP, MSCP

Professor and Chair, Division of General Internal Medicine
Associate Director, Women’s Health Research Center
Mayo Clinic Enterprises
Jacksonville, Florida

Donna H. Ryan

Professor Emerita, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Past Principal Investigator, US Department of Defence
Past President, The Obesity Society
Past Master of Obesity Medicine, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Past President, The World Obesity Federation
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Steven R. Smith

Chief Scientific Officer

Senior Vice President

AdventHealth Research Institute

Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University

Adjunct Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Orlando, Florida

Elizabeth Selvin

PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

Director, Cardiovascular and Clinical Epidemiology

Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, Maryland

Laurence S. Sperling

MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA, MASPC

Founder, Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine

Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Executive Director, Million Hearts

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Atlanta, Georgia

Michael P. Snyder

PhD

Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics
Chair, Genetics Department
Director, Center of Genomics & Personalized Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine
CoFounder of January.ai, Q.bio, Personalis, RTHM, & Iollo
Stanford, California

Muthiah Vaduganathan

MD, MPH, FACC, FHFA

Cardiologist and Clinical Trialist

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Co-Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science

Associate Editor of JACC

US National Ambassador to the ESC Heart Failure Association

Boston, Massachusetts

Raymond R. Townsend

MD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine and an Associate Director

The Clinical and Translational Research Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Matthew R. Weir

Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology,
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Kevin Jon Williams

Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences
Professor of Medicine
Temple University
Principal Investigator on several NIH-Funded projects
Consulting Editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation
Philadelphia, PA

2025 FACULTY

2024 Faculty Members

Yehuda Handelsman

Mikhail N. Kosiborod

Krishna G. Aragam

Christie M. Ballantyne

Ori Ben-Yehuda

David D. Berg

Biykem Bozkurt

Mathew J. Budoff

Deepak L. Bhatt

Zachary T. Bloomgarden

Robert S. Busch

Javed Butler

Robert J. Chilton

Mark E. Cooper

Akshay S. Desai

Ralph A. DeFronzo

Michael. J. Domanski

Michael E. Farkouh

Katherine A. Gallagher

Lee R. Goldberg

Jennifer B. Green

Stephen J. Greene

George Grunberger

Josephine Harrington

Mansoor Husain,

Silvio E. Inzucchi

Mark T. Kearney

Paul S. Jellinger

Sadiya S. Khan

Samuel Klein

Norman E. Lepor

Lawrence A. Leiter

Christos S. Mantzoros

Darren K. McGuire

Christian W. Mende

Erin D. Michos

Neha J. Pagidipati

Jorge Plutzky

Rosario Pivonello

Chiadi E. Ndumele

Richard E. Pratley

Ambarish Pandey

Janani Rangaswami

Lu Qi

Peter D. Reaven

Kausik K. Ray

Ravi Retnakaran

Anjay Rastogi

Peter Rossing

Jane E.B. Reusch

Chrisandra L. Shufelt

Donna H. Ryan

Steven R. Smith

Elizabeth Selvin

Laurence S. Sperling

Michael P. Snyder

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Raymond R. Townsend

Matthew R. Weir

Kevin Jon Williams

Headquarters & Administration