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

Mikhail N. Kosiborod

MD, FACC, FAHA

Chair, 5th Heart in Diabetes

Professor of Medicine
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kansas City, Missouri

Rajiv Agarwal

MD, MS

Professor of Medicine
Indiana Unversity School of Medicine
Staff Physician, RLR VA Medical Center
Indianapolis, Indiana

Suzanne V. Arnold

MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Missouri
Kansas City School of Medicine
Kansas City, Missouri

George L. Bakris

MA, MD

Professor of Medicine, 
Director, Am Heart Assoc Comprehensive Hypertension Center
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

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

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

Zachary Bloomgarden

MD, MACE

Editor, the Journal of Diabetes
www.jdiabetes.com
Clinical Professor
Icahn School of Medicine at

Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Biykem Bozkurt

MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA

President, Heart Failure Society of America The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair W.A. “Tex” and Deborah Moncrief, Jr., Chair Professor of Medicine Medical Care Line Executive, DeBakey VA Medical Center Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research Associate Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute Vice-Chair of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Senior Associate Editor, Circulation Houston, Texas

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

Javed Butler

MD, MPH, MBA

Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi

Medical Center
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

Sam Dagogo-Jack

MD, DSc, MBA

A.C. Mullins Endowed

Professor & Director,
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
The University of Tennessee

Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee

Ian De Boer

MD, MS

Professor of Medicine,

Division of Nephrology

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology

Associate Director,

Kidney Research Institute

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

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

Stefano Del Prato

MD

Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Chief of the Section of Diabetes
University of Pisa,

School of Medicine
Pisa, Italy

Andrea Dunaif

MD

Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Molecular Medicine
System Chief, Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

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 Assoc
President of Science and Medicine, American Diabetes Association
Aurora, Colorado

Daniel Einhorn

MD, FACP, FACE

President, Diabetes and Endocrine Associates
Medical Director, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute 
Past President, American Association of Clinical Endocrinology 
Past President, American College of Endocrinology (ACE)
Associate Editor, Journal of Diabetes
La Jolla, California

Brendan Everett

MD, MPH

Divisions of Cardiovascular and Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts 

Michael E. Farkouh

MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACC, FAHA

Peter Munk Chair in

Multinational Clinical Trials
Director, Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence,

University of Toronto
Vice-Chair Research & Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Valentin Fuster

MD, PhD

Director, Mount Sinai Heart
Physician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

Lucas Godoy

MD

Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the Heart and Stroke Richard Lewar Centre, 
University of Toronto, 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter J. Grant

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 Green

MD

Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
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 Past President, AACE

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Martha Gulati

MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC

Editor-in-Chief, CardioSmart

Phoenix, Arizona

Erica P. Gunderson

PhD, MS, MPH

Life-course Epidemiology of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in

Women and Youth
Senior Research Scientist, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA
Professor, Department of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, 
Pasadena, CA

Silvio E. Inzucchi

MD

Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Clinical Chief, Endocrinology and Medical Director
Yale Diabetes Center
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut

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

Norman E. Lepor

MD, FACC

Clinical Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine

at UCLA
Attending Cardiologist at the Smidt
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Director of Clinical Research
Westside Medical Associates of Los Angeles 
Co-Director of Cardiovascular Imaging
Westside Medical Imaging

in Beverly Hills
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 Mt. Sinai
New York, New York

Gina P. Lundberg

MD, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Director, Emory Women's Heart Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Atlanta, Georgia

Melissa L. Magwire

RN, MSN, CDCES

Program Director
Cardiometabolic Center Alliance, Inc.
Saint Luke's Mid America

Heart Institute
Kansas City, Missouri

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

Darren McGuire

MD, MHSc

Professor of Internal Medicine,
Division of Cardiology
Dallas Heart Ball Chair for Research on Heart Disease in Women
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Deputy Editor, Circulation
Dallas, Texas

John McMurray

MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC, FAHA, FRSE, FMedSci

Professor of Medical Cardiology and Deputy Director (Clinical)
Institute of Cardiovascular and

Medical Sciences
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Glasgow, Scotland

Jeffrey I Mechanick

MD

Professor of Medicine, 
Medical Director Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health at

Mount Sinai Heart, 
Director Metabolic Support in Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and

Bone Disease
New York, New York

Christian W. Mende

MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH, FAHA

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

Erin D. Michos

MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology
Division of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Neha J. Pagidipati

MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of

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

Ambarish Pandey

MD

Division of Cardiology, 
Department of Internal Medicine, 
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and 
Parkland Health and Hospital System, 
Dallas, Texas

Kershaw V. Patel

MD

Preventive Cardiology
Houston Methodist Debakey Cardiology Associates
Houston, Texas

Bertram Pitt

MD

Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
University of Michigan

School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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
Orlando, Florida

Naresh M. Punjabi

MD, PhD

Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Kausik Ray

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

Professor of Public Health/Consultant Cardiologist Deputy Director of The Imperial Clinical Trials Unit Head of Commercial Trials Department of Public Health and Primary Care School of Public Health, Imperial College Chief Clinical Officer and Head of Trials – Discover Now NIHR ARC National Lead of Cardiovascular Disease

EAS President Elect

London, United Kingdom

Jane EB Reusch

MD, ASCI, AAP, FAHA

Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Director of Diabetes Research and Personalized Medicine to Transform Care; Associate Director, Center for Women’s Health Research; Co-Director, University of Colorado NIH Diabetes Research Center; Departments of Medicine, Integrative Physiology, and Bioengineering University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus Staff Physician and Merit Investigator Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC,
Aurora, CO

Donna H. Ryan

MD

Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
New Orleans, Louisiana 

Mark J. Sarnak

MD, MS

Dr. Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Selvin

PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology & Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular and Clinical Epidemiology 
Department of Epidemiology
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland

Viral Shah

MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Adult Clinic
School of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado

Leslee J. Shaw

PhD, MASNC, FACC,FAHA, MSCCT

Professor and Endowed Chair
Director, Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging
Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Radiology
New York, New York

Laurence Sperling

MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology
Founder, Emory Heart Disease Prevention
Professor of Global Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Pam R. Taub

MD, FACC, FASPC

Director of  Step Family Foundation Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego Health System
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
La Jolla, California

Peter Toth

MD, PHD, FASPC

President, ASPC Director of Preventive Cardiology CGH Medical Center Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine University of Illinois School of Medicine Professor of Clinical Medicine Michigan State University Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine Cicarrone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Sterling, Illinois

Robert Toto

MD

Professor of Medicine

Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas

Dallas, Texas

Elaine M. Urbina

MD, MS

Director, Preventive Cardiology
Research Integrity Officer
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

Matthew R. Weir

MD

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

Christopher Wilcox

MD, PhD

Walers Family Chair Of Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Nephrology
Georgetown University
Washington D.C.

Steven D. Wiviott

MD, FACC

Vice President, Clinical Trials Research
and Administration| Mass General Brigham
Senior Investigator | TIMI Study Group
Cardiovascular Division | Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine | Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Henry Klar Yaggi

MD, MPH

Director, Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine
Vice Chief for Research
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
PI, Clinical Epidemiology Research Center
VA CT HCS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale  School of Medicine 
New Haven, Connecticut