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2026 FACULTY 

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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

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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
Durham, North Carolina

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Amrut V. Ambardekar

MD

Medical Director Cardiac Transplant Program
Section Head, Advanced Heart Failure-Transplant Cardiology
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Colorado
Greenwood Village, Colorado

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Louis J. Aronne, 

MD, FACP, DABOM

Sanford I. Weill

Professor of Metabolic Research
Director, Comprehensive

Weight Control Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
Comprehensive Weight Control Center
New York, NY

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Christie M. Ballantyne

MD, FACP, FACC

Chief, Section of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research 
Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention 
Immediate Past President, National Lipid Association
Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Human Genetics
Houston, Texas

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Jan N. Basile

MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
Charleston, SC

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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 

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Zachary T. Bloomgarden,

MD, MACE 

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine Icahn 
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
Editor, The Journal of Diabetes Fellow, 
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology 
New York, New York

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Roger S. Blumenthal

MD, FAHA, FACC

Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology  
Director of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center 
of the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Baltimore, MD

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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

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Alan S. Brown,

MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, MNLA 

Specialist in Clinical Lipidology
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Past President, National Lipid Association
Winston Salem, NC

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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

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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

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Jonathan E. Campbell

PhD

Associate Professor in Medicine
Associate Research Professor in Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Durham, NC

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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

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Mark E. Cooper

AO, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

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

Alfred Health Clinic
Melbourne, Australia

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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

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Alejandro De Feria

MD

Assistant Professor 
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine 
University of Pennsylvania 
Associate Director of the
Center for Inherited Heart Disease
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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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

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Jonathan Feig

MD, PhD, FACC

Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) 
UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine and 
Tulane University School of Medicine
Director of Cardiometabolic Disease Treatment Program 
New York, NY 

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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 

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Vivian A. Fonseca

MD

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research
Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
Chief, Section of Endocrinology
John Deming Department of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

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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

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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

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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

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Hubert B. Haywood

MD, MBA

Advanced Heart Failure

and Transplant Fellow

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

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Carolyn Y. Ho, MD

MD

Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

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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

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Paul S. Jellinger

MD, MACE

The Center for Diabetes

& Endocrine Care
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami
Hollywood, Florida

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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

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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

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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 

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Samuel Klein

MD

William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Center for Human Nutrition
Washington University

School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

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Hyeok-Hee Lee

MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 

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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 

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Lawrence A. Leiter

MD, FRCP, FACP, FACE, FAHA

Division of Endocrinology

and Metabolism,
St. Michael's Hospital.
Professor of Medicine

and Nutritional Sciences,
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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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

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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

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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

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Christian W. Mende

MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FAHA

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

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Erin D. Michos

MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

Professor of Medicine
Director of Women’s

Cardiovascular Health
Associate Director

of Preventive Cardiology
Core Faculty, Advanced Lipid Clinic
Division of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University

School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

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Filipe A. Moura

MD, PhD

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

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Chiadi E. Ndumele

MD, PhD, FAHA

Associate Professor of Medicine

and Epidemiology
Director of Obesity

and Cardiometabolic Research
Division of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University

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Kara A. Nerenberg

MD

Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary Alberta, Canada

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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

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Anjali T. Owens

MD

Medical Director, Center for Inherited Cardiac Disease
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

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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

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Jorge Plutzky

MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Director, Preventive Cardiology,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital 
Boston, Massachusetts

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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 Adjunct Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Orlando, Florida

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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 

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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

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Peter Rossing

MD, DMSc

Professor Department

of Clinical Medicine
University of Copenhagen
Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
Herlev, Denmark

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Donna H. Ryan

MD

Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Former President of The Obesity Society 
& World Obesity Federation
Baton Rouge, LA

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Elizabeth Selvin

PhD, MPH

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

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Michael Snyder

PhD

Stanford W. Ascherman

Professor of Genetics
Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-Founder of January.ai, Q.bio, Personalis, RTHM, & Iollo

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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

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Daniel Tardo

BAppSc (Ex&SpSc) (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MMed, FRACP

Cardiologist and Current

Clinical Research Fellow 
City St George’s, University of London

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Raymond R. Townsend,

MD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine and

an Associate Director
The Clinical and Translational

Research Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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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

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Muthiah Vaduganathan

MD

TBD

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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

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Matthew R. Weir

MD

Professor and Chief,

Division of Nephrology,
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland

School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

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Adithya K. Yadalam

MD, MSc

Emory Cardiovascular

Disease Fellow, PGY-6
Academic Clinical Investigator Pathway
Emory Clinical Cardiovascular

Research Institute
Emory University

School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

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