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, Metabolic Institute of America

President, Diabetes, CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute (DCMi)

Chair & Program Director WCIRDC
Tarzana, California

Richard N. Bergman, PhD

Alfred Jay Firestein

Chair in Diabetes Research

Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai

Director Sports Spectacular Diabetes and Obesity Wellness and Research Center (SSDOWRC)

Professor-in-Residence,

Department of Medicine, UCLA

Los Angeles, California

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

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 Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,

Division of Cardiology

Los Angeles, California

Sonia Caprio, MD

Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

Robert J. Chilton, DO, FACC

Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of 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 Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

W. Timothy Garvey, MD, FACE

Butterworth Professor and Chair
Department of Nutrition Sciences
GRECC Investigator and Staff Physician
Birmingham VA Medical Center
Director, UAB Diabetes

Research and Training 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 Green, MD

Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina

Stephen J. Green, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
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
Past President, AACE
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Chris K. Guerin , MD, FACE, FNLA

Chief, Division of Endocrinology

and Metabolism,
Tri-City Medical Center

at Oceanside, CA
Founder-Advanced Metabolic

Care and Research
Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California

at San Diego, California
Chair Past President’s Committee for CACE (Clinical Association of California Endocrinologists)

and Board of Directors

Oceanside, CA

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

Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Past President, AACE & ACE
Hollywood, Florida

Samuel Klein, MD

William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science

Director, Center for Human Nutrition

Chief, Division of Geriatrics &

Nutritional Science

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

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

Senior Scientist and Director, Atherosclerosis Research
Children's Hospital Oakland

Research Institute
Adjunct Professor

Department of Medicine, UCSF
Adjunct Professor

Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Norman E Lepor, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI

Past President, California Chapter, American College of Cardiology
Clinical Professor of Medicine - Geffen School of Medicine-UCLA
Attending Cardiologist,

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Co-director, Cardiovascular Imaging-Westside Medical Imaging
Director of Clinical Research

Westside Medical Associates

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 and Department of Population and Data Sciences Medical Director, Office of Clinical Trial Management University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas

Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes,

& Metabolism
Editor-in Chief, Metabolism
Clinical and Experimental
Boston, 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

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford, California

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

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Specialist in Clinical Hypertension
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California

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

Associate Director

of Preventive Cardiology

John Hopkins University

School of Medicine

Co-Editor-In-Chief of the 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

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, Department of

Internal Medicine
Gifford O. Touchstone Jr. and

Randolph G. Touchstone
Distinguished Chair

in Diabetes Research
Director, Touchstone Diabetes Center
The University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Bart Staels, PhD

Full Professor, University of Lille
Director of Inserm UMR1011
European Genomics Institute for Diabetes & Institute
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 AO, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRCP, FTSE

Doctor of Laws (Monash), Doctoris Philosophiae, Honoris Causa

(Tel Aviv University)
Professorial Fellow,

Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Professor of Diabetes Research,

Monash University
Honorary President,

International Diabetes Federation
Melbourne, Australia

International Committee for Insulin Resistance (ICIR)

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

Richard N. Bergman, PhD

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, MACE

Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA

Sonia Caprio, MD

Robert J. Chilton, DO, FACC

Jaime A. Davidson, MD, FACP, MACE

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD

Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, FRCP

W. Timothy Garvey, MD, FACE

Peter J. Grant, MD, FMedSci

Jennifer Green, MD

Stephen J. Green, MD

George Grunberger, MD, FACP, MACE

Chris K. Guerin , MD, FACE, FNLA

Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE

Samuel Klein, MD

Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, FACC, FAHA

Ronald M. Krauss, MD

Norman E Lepor, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI

Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD, FACP

Philip Levy, MD, MACE

Ildiko Lingvay, MD, MPH, MSCS

Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD

Nikolaus Marx, MD, FESC, FAHA

Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS

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

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

Jorge Plutzky, MD

Richard E. Pratley, MD

Arun J. Sanyal, MD, MBBS

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD

Bart Staels, PhD

Pam R. Taub, MD, FACC, FASPC

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH

Matthew R. Weir, MD

Paul Zimmet AO, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRCP, FTSE

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