Yehuda Handelsman

MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, MACE

Chair & Program Director

4th Heart in Diabetes

Medical Director & Principal Investigator, The Metabolic Institute of America Tarzana, California

Mikhail N. Kosiborod

MD, FACC, FAHA

Chair, 4th Heart in Diabetes

Professor of Medicine

Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

University of Missouri-Kansas City

School of Medicine

Kansas City, Missouri

George Bakris

MD, MA, Hon. DSc, FASN, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Director, AHA Comprehensive Hypertension Center

The University of Chicago 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

Richard C. Becker

MD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Director, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Diseases

Director and Physician-in-Chief,

University of Cincinnati Heart,

Lung & Vascular Institute

University of Cincinnati

College of Medicine

Cincinnati, Ohio

Joshua Beckman

MD, MS

Professor of Medicine

Director, Vascular Medicine Section Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center (VTRACC)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee

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 T. Bloomgarden

MD, MACE

Editor, the Journal of Diabetes www.jdiabetes.com,

Clinical Professor Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York

Biykem Bozkurt

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

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
Houston, Texas

Eugene Braunwald

MD

Distinguished Hersey

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Founding Chairman, TIMI Study Group

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

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

Patrick H. Lehan Chair in

Cardiovascular Research

Professor and Chairman,

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

David J. Cohen

MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

Mark E. Cooper

MB BS, PhD, FRACP

Head, Department of Diabetes
Central Clinical School
Monash University
Senior Endocrinologist,

Alfred Health Clinic
Melbourne, Australia

Michael H. Davidson

MD, FACC, FACP, FNLA

Professor, Director of the Lipid Clinic

The University of Chicago Pritzker

School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Stefano Del Prato

MD

Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Chief of the Section of Diabetes

University of Pisa, School of Medicine

Pisa, Italy

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

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

Sergio Fazio

MD, PhD

The William and Sonja Connor

Chair of Preventive Cardiology

Professor of Medicine and

Physiology & Pharmacology

Director, Center for Preventive Cardiology

Knight Cardiovascular Institute

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

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

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, FACE

Chairman, Grunberger Diabetes Institute Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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

Daniel Gudbjartsson

PhD

V.P. of Statistics
deCODE Genetics
Reykjavik, Iceland

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

Paul S. Jellinger

MD, MACE

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Voluntary Faculty

University of Miami,

Miller School of Medicine

The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care

Past President, AACE & ACE

Hollywood, Florida

Mark Kearney

MBChB, MRCP, MD

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

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

Alice H. Lichtenstein

D.Sc.

Gershoff Professor of

Nutrition Science and Policy

Director and Senior Scientist, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory

Tufts University

JM USDA Human Nutrition

Research Center on Aging

Boston, Massachusetts

Myra A. Lipes

MD

Assistant Professor, Medicine,

Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor, Medicine,

Brigham And Women's Hospital

Investigator, Research Division,

Joslin Diabetes Center

Boston, Massachusetts

Irving Loh

MD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, FACP

Chief Medical Officer and

Co-Founder, INFERMEDICA
Ventura Heart Institute
Chair, Technology & Innovation, California Chapter,

American College of Cardiology
Member, AI4H, International Telecommunication Union,

World Health Organization/UN
Adjunct Lecturer,

Department of Medicine,

Stanford University School of Medicine
Thousand Oaks, California

Julie A. Lovshin

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Clinician Scientist

Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

University of Toronto

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

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

Nikolaus Marx

MD, FESC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine / Cardiology

Head of the Department of

Internal Medicine I

University Hospital RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany

John McMurray

BSC (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC, FAHA, FRSE, FMedSci, OBE

Professor of Medical Cardiology and Deputy Director (Clinical)

Institute of Cardiovascular and

Medical Sciences

Honorary Consultant Cardiologist

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow, Scotland

Christian W. Mende

MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH, FAHA

Clinical Professor of Medicine University of California San Diego

La Jolla, California

Robert J. Mentz

MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief, Heart Failure Section
Associate Program Director,
Duke Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Duke University Medical Center and 
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina

David M. Nathan

MD

Director, Diabetes Center and

Clinical Research Center

Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Steven E. Nissen

MD, MACC

Chief Academic Officer

Heart and Vascular Institute

Cleveland Clinic

Professor of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

Lerner School of Medicine at

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Neha J. Pagidipati

MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine,

Division of Cardiology

Director, Duke Cardiometabolic Prevention Program

Associate Program Director,

Cardiology Fellowship

Associate Program Director,

DCRI Research Fellowship

Duke Clinical Research Institute

Duke University Medical School

Durham, North Carolina

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

Kausik Ray

BSc(hons), 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

Peter Reaven

MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine

University of Arizona

Director, Diabetes Program

Carl T. Hayden VAMC (111E)

Research Professor

College of Health Solutions

Arizona State University

Phoenix, Arizona

Jennifer G. Robinson

MD, MPH

Professor, Departments of

Epidemiology & Medicine

Director, Prevention Intervention

Center Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Benjamin M. Scirica

MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine,

Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group
Boston, Massachusetts

Michael P. Snyder

PhD

Professor and Chair of Genetics

Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California

Laurence Sperling

MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology

Director of the Emory Heart Disease Prevention Center

Professor of Global Health

Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health at

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

Philippe Gabriel Steg

MD, FESC, FACC

Chief, Department of Cardiology

Hôpital Bichat, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Vice President (in charge of research) Board of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris

Professor of Cardiology, Université Paris - Diderot Director, “Clinical Research in Atherothrombosis” Research Team Coordinator of the iVASC (InnoVations in Atherothrombosis SCience) RHU research consortium Chair of the FACT (French Alliance for cardiovascular Clinical Trials) Chairman of the French National University Council

Paris, France

Jeffrey Testani

MD, MTR

Associate Professor
Director of Heart Failure Research,
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Muthiah Vaduganathan

MD, MPH

Cardiologist,

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor of Medicine,

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Subodh Verma

MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAHA

Cardiac Surgeon

Professor of Surgery and

Pharmacology & Toxicology

University of Toronto

Canada Research Chair in

Cardiovascular Surgery

Division of Cardiac Surgery

St. Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Allen Wang

MD

Internal Medicine Resident

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts

Duke Center for Atrial Fibrillation Durham, North Carolina

Matthew R. Weir

MD

Professor and Chief

Division of Nephrology

Department of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland