Scientific Committee

International Committee for Insulin Resistance (ICIR)

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Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE, Chair

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

Richard N. Bergman, PhD

Alfred Jay Firestein Chair in Diabetes Research
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Director of Diabetes and Obesity Wellness and Research Center
Professor-in-Residence, UCLA
Professor Emeritus USC
Los Angeles, California

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

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

Sonia Caprio, MD

Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

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

Jaime A. Davidson, MD, FACP, MACE

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology,

Diabetes and Metabolism

Touchstone Diabetes Research Center

The University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Diabetes Division
University of Texas Health

Science Center at San Antonio
Deputy Director,

Texas Diabetes Institute
San Antonio, Texas

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

W. Timothy Garvey, MD, FACE

Charles E. Butterworth, Jr., Professor and University Professor
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Director, UAB Diabetes Research Center
Birmingham, Alabama

Peter J. Grant, MD, FMedSci

Professor of Medicine and

Consultant Physician
University of Leeds/Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,
Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine,
LIGHT Laboratories
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

Stephen J. Green, MD

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

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

Chris K. Guerin , MD, FACE, FEAA

Investigator at AMCR Institute
Escondido, California

Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) & Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology)
Yale University School of Medicine
Director, Yale Obesity Research Center (Y-Weight)
Co-Director, Yale Center for Weight Management
Board of Directors, American Board of Obesity Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE

The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami
Hollywood, Florida

Samuel Klein, MD

Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

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Rohit N. Kulkarni, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Chair

Senior Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston

Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine,
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
University of Missouri-Kansas City

School of Medicine
Kansas City, Missouri

Ronald M. Krauss, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, UCSF
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

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

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

Philip Levy, MD, MACE

Clinical Professor of Medicine,
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Endocrinologist,

Banner University Medical Group
Phoenix, Arizona

Ildiko Lingvay, MD, MPH, MSCS

Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Endocrinology
Department of Population and Data Science
Medical Director, Office of Clinical Trials Management (OCTM)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Christos 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
Harvard, Massachusetts

Nikolaus Marx, MD, FESC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine / Cardiology
Head of Department of Internal Medicine,
Cardiology, Pneumology,

Angiology and Intensive Care
University Hospital Aachen
Aachen, Germany

Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
Clinician Investigator
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Christian W. Mende, MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FASH

Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
Associate Editor of The Journal Diabetes
San Diego, California

Erin D. Michos MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

Professor of Medicine
Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health Research
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

Jorge Plutzky, MD

Director, The Vascular Disease

Prevention Program

Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Richard E. Pratley, MD

Samuel E. Crockett

Chair in Diabetes Research
Medical Director,

AdventHealth Diabetes Institute
Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead, Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes
AdventHealth Orlando
Orlando, Florida

Peter Rossing, MD, DMSc

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

Arun J. Sanyal, MD, MBBS

Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Molecular Pathology
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
VCU Medical Center
Director, Education Core, CCTR
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD

Professor and Director, Touchstone Diabetes Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Bart Staels, PhD

Co-founder of GENFIT
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
Full Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University de Lille
Director, Inserm UMR1011, Institut Pasteur de Lille
Lille, France

Pam R. Taub, MD, FACC, FASPC

Director of Step Family Foundation Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego Health System
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

San Diego, California

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH

Cardiologist and Clinical Trialist,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science
Boston, Massachusetts

Matthew R. Weir, MD

Professor and Chief
Division of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Paul Zimmet MD, PhD

Professor of Diabetes, Monash University
Honorary President, International Diabetes Federation
Co-Director, The Sagol Center for Epigenetics of Metabolism and Ageing,
Tel Aviv Medical Center
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa (Monash)
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa (Tel Aviv University)
Honoris Causa Doctoris, Complutense University (Madrid)
Doctor of the University, Honoris Causa (Adelaide)
Doctor of Philosophy, Umea University (Sweden)
Melbourne, Australia