Faculty

Caroline M. Apovian, MD, FACP, FTOS, DABOM
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, FACP, FACC
Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Human Genetics
Chief, Section of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research
Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Immediate Past President, National Lipid Association

Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI
Director, Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital
Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City

Peminda K. Cabandugama, MD, DABOM
Director, Digital Obesity and Co-Program Director, Obesity Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Lee-Shing Chang, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School 
Associate Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Fran Cogen, MD, CDCES
Director Emerita, Diabetes Services
Washington Nationals Diabetes Care Complex
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Children’s National Hospital

Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH, FACC, FHFSA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program
Advanced Heart Disease Section, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Naomi Fisher, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Hypertension Specialty Clinic and Hypertension Innovation 
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Irl Hirsch, MD, MACP
Professor and Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair
Professor of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition 
UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, Seattle, WA

Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP
Director, Education and Training in Diabetes Technology
Co-Director, Center of Excellence for Endocrine Disorders in Pregnancy
Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute, Cleveland, OH

Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES
Diabetes-cardiometabolic consultant

Marie E. McDonnell, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Diabetes Section, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David B. Mount, MD, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief and Clinical Chief, Renal Division
Director, Dialysis Services
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Nephrologist, VA Boston Healthcare System

Mark Sarnak, MD, MS
Chief, Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center
Dr. Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Philip R. Schauer, MD, FACS, FASMBS
United Companies Life Insurance Co./ Mary Kay and Terrell Brown Chair 
Professor of Metabolic Surgery
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Director, Metamor Institute 

Devin Steenkamp, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition,
Boston University School of Medicine
Director of Clinical Diabetes Program
Boston Medical Center

Peter Stone, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Vascular Profiling Research Group
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Arthi Thirumalai, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
UW Medicine, Seattle, WA
Physician, Endocrine and Diabetes Care Center, UWMC-Roosevelt 
Atherosclerosis/Lipid Clinic, Harborview