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

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

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

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

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

James L. Januzzi, Jr., MD, FACC, FESC
Adolph Hutter Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief Scientific Officer and C. Michael Gibson Chair
Baim Institute for Clinical Research
Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiology Division
Deputy Editor at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Chairs the Philanthropy Committee at the ACC
Boston, Massachusetts

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
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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

Katherine Wilemon
Founder & CEO
Family Heart Foundation
Fernandina Beach, FL

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