2026 FACULTY
Yehuda Handelsman
MD, Chair
FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE
Medical Director & Principal Investigator,
The Metabolic Institute of America
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, CA
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, DCMi –
Diabetes CardioRenal &
Metabolism Institute
Tarzana, 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
Biykem Bozkurt
MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP
Senior Dean of Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine
Mary and Gordon Cain Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine
Director of the Winters Center for Heart Failure
Associate Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Medical Care Line Executive Leader
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Jonathan E. Campbell
PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine
Associate Research Professor in Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Durham, NC

Mark E. Cooper
AO, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Head, Department of Diabetes
Central Clinical School
Monash University
Senior Endocrinologist,
Alfred Health Clinic
Melbourne, Australia

Sharlene M. Day
MD
Director, Translational Research
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute
Presidential Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, FRCPC, MSc, FACC, FAHA
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, California

Jonathan Feig
MD, PhD, FACC
Chief of Cardiology
VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
Brooklyn, New York

Keith C. Ferdinand
MD, FACC ,FAHA , FASPC, FNLA, FPCNA (hon.)
Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventative Cardiology
Professor of Medicine,
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

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
George Grunberger
MD, FACP, MACE
Chairman, Grunberger Diabetes
and Endocrinology
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, American Association
of Clinical Endocrinologists
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Martha Gulati
MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, MASPC, FESC, FSCCT, (hon) FNIPC (hon)
Immediate Past President, American Society for Preventive Cardiology
Professor of Cardiology
Davis Endowed Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Health
Department of Cardiology
Houston Methodist Heart
and Vascular Center
Houston, Texas, USA

Yu Mi Kang
MD, PhD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
at Harvard Medical School
Physician-scientist in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Hypertension
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Rohan Khera
MD, MS, FACC, FAHA
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
and Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Director, Cardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab
Yale School of Medicine
Clinical Director, Center for Health Informatics and Analytics
YNHH/ Yale CORE
Associate Editor, JAMA
New Haven, Connecticut

Norman E. Lepor
MD, FACC, FAHA
Founder and Director,
National Heart Institute
Past President, California Chapter, American College of Cardiology
Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Attending Cardiologist, Smidt Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA

Peter Libby
MD
Cardiovascular Specialist
Mass General Brigham and
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director Mass General Brigham Center for Inflammation Imaging
President, Residual Risk Reduction Initiative (R3i Foundation)
Immediate Past President, International Atherosclerosis Society
Executive Editor, European Heart Journal

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
Boston, Massachusetts
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

Filipe Moura
MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Nuclear Cardiology (VA CT)
Yale University School of Medicine
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
New Haven CT

Steven E. Nissen
MD, MACC
Chief Academic Officer
Heart and Vascular Institute
at the Cleveland Clinic
The Lewis and Patricia Dickey Chair
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner
College of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio

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
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, OH

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

Peter Rossing
MD, DMSc
Professor Department
of Clinical Medicine
University of Copenhagen
Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
Herlev, Denmark

Donna H. Ryan
MD
Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Former President of The Obesity Society
& World Obesity Federation
Baton Rouge, LA,

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

Laurence Sperling
MD, 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

Daniel Tardo
BAppSc (Ex&SpSc) (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MMed, FRACP
Cardiologist and Current
Clinical Research Fellow
City St George’s, University of London

Raymond R. Townsend,
MD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine and
an Associate Director
The Clinical and Translational
Research Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Katherine R. Tuttle
MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF
Executive Director for Research
Providence Inland Northwest Health
Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology and Kidney Research Institute
University of Washington
School of Medicine

Muthiah Vaduganathan
MD
TBD

Rishi K. Wadhera
MD, MPP, MPhil
Associate Director of and Section Head of Health Policy
The Smith Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Matthew R. Weir
MD
Professor and Chief,
Division of Nephrology,
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
































