8th WCIR Key Note Speaker “Distinguished Leader in Insulin Resistance” Award C. Ronald Kahn, MD Mary K. Iacocca Professor Harvard Medical School Head of Integrative Physiology and Metabolism Joslin Diabetes Center Boston, Massachusetts

Yehuda Handelsman, MD FACP, FACE Chair
Medical Director
Metabolic Institute of America
Senior Scientific Consultant
Metabolic Endocrine Education Foundation
Chair International Committee for Insulin Resistance
Tarzana, California

Sir George Alberti, MD
Senior Research Fellow,
Imperial College London National
Director for Emergency Access,
UK Department of Health Emeritus,
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Newcastle University
New Castle, England

Stephanie A Amiel, BSc, MD, FRCP
RD Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine
King's College London

Fredrik Backhed, PhD
Associate Professor
Wallenberg Laboratory
Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gothenburg, Sweden

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Assistant Attending in Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital
Consultant in Endocrinology
Lawrence Hospital
New York, New York

Maria Mori Brooks, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sonia Caprio, MD
Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Rhoda H. Cobin, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Past President ,AACE & ACE
New York, New York

Suzanne Craft, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
School of Medicine
Associate Director, Geriatric Research
Education & Clinical Center
Seattle, Washington

Samuel W. Cushman, PhD
Chief, Experimental Diabetes
Metabolism and Obesity Section
Diabetes Branch, NIDDK, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
L. Joseph Butterfield Chair and Pediatrician-in-Chief
The Children's Hospital
Aurora, Colorado

David A. Ehrmann, MD
Professor of Medicine
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Daniel Einhorn, MD, FACP, FACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Diabetes and Endocrine Associates
Medical Director, Scripps Whittier
Institute for Diabetes
San Diego, California

Edgar G. Engleman, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California

Earl Ford, MD, MPH
Team Leader,
Epidemiology and Analysis Team
Behavioral Surveillance Branch
Division of Adult and Community Health
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, MD
Associate Professor
Section of Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston Texas

Philippe Froguel, MD, PhD, FMedSci
Professor of Genomic Medicine
Head of Department of Genomics of common diseases,
Hammersmith Hospital Campus
School of Public Health, Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom

Christopher D. Gardner, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Standford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Pamela Goodwin, MD
Professor department of Medicine
Department of health policy
Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter J. Grant, MD
Professor of Medicine
Head Academic Unit of Molecular Vascular Medicine
University of Leeds School of Medicine
The Martin Wing, The General Infirmary
Leeds, United Kingdom

Paul S. Jellinger, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Voluntary Faculty
University of Miami
The Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Care
Past President, AACE & ACE
Hollywood, Florida

Richard J. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Temple Hoyne Buell and NKF of Colorado Endowed
Chief, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
University of Colorado, Denver
Aurora , Colorado

C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Mary K. Iacocca Professor
Harvard Medical School  
Head of Integrative Physiology and Metabolism
Joslin Diabetes Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Mark T. Kearney, MBChB, MRCP, DM
Professor of Cardiology
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Sun H. Kim, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

Ronald M. Krauss, MD
Director, Atherosclerosis Research
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Senior Scientist, Genome
Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California Berkeley, California

Robert H. Lane, MD
Presidential Professor
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Associate Chair, Research
Director, Neonatal - Perinatal Fellowshhip
Department of Pediatrics
University of Utah Medical School
Salt Lake City, Utah

Philip Levy, MD, MACE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Phoenix Endocrinology Clinics, Ltd.
Past President ACE
Phoenix, Arizona

Gary F. Lewis, MD, FRCPC
Professor, Depts of Medicine and Physiology
Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Diabetes
Toronto, Canada 

Lorraine Lipscombe, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto
Endocrinologist, Women's College Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Darren McGuire, MD., MHSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Tracey L. McLaughlin, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology,
Gerontology and Metabolism
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford, California

Jorge Plutzky, MD
Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention Program
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston Massachusetts

Richard Edwin Pratley, MD
Professor of Medicine
DirectorDiabetes and Metabolism
Translational Medicine Unit
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Burlington, Vermont 

Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry
Exercise and Sport Science
Director, Bariatric Surgery Research Program
Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Gerald Reaven, MD
Professor of Medicine
(Active Emeritus)
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Jerome I. Rotter, MD
Professor of Medicine
Pediatrics, and human Genetics
University California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Arun J. Sanyal, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Chairman, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
Professor, Deartment of Internal Medicine
Gifford O. Touchstone Jr. and Randolph G. Touchsone
Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Center
The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Randy J. Seeley, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Genome Research Institute
Cincinnati, Ohio

Alan R. Sinaiko, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Nephrology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Pediatric Nephrology
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Susan S. Smyth, MD, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington, Kentucky

Burton E. Sobel, MD, FACC, FACP
Director, Cardiovascular
Research Institute
The University of Vermont
Consulting Cardiologist
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Burlington, Vermont

Bart Staels, PhD
Full Professor, University of Lille
Nord de France
Head of Inserm
Lille, France

Marja-Riitta Taskinen, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Emerita Helsinki Unversity Hospital
Division of Cardiology
Institute of Clinical Medicine Biomedicum
Helsinki, Finland

Philip S. Tsao , PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University school of Medicine
Stanford, California

Eve Van Cauter, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Department of medicine
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois