
8th Annual Heart in Diabetes
“Where the heart, kidney, and diabetes meet in clinical practice.”
June 7 -9, 2024 | Hilton Philadelphia at Penn's Landing
201 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Scientific Committee
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
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
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
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
Mansoor Husain, BSc, FRCPC, MD
Executive Director,
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Director, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute,
University Health Network
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute,
University Health Network
Toronto, Canada
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
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FESC
Director, Mount Sinai Heart
Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai Health System
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Accreditation Management Board, Chair American College of Cardiology
New York, New York
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
Lawrence A. Leiter, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FAHA
Associate Scientist,
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Director, Lipid Clinic Associate
Director, Clinical Nutrition and
Risk Factor Modification Centre
St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor,
Medicine and Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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