Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Neurological Surgery
Medical Director, California Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF

Dr. Blevins' main clinical interests are in the evaluation and management of patients with various disorders of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus. He has particular expertise with regards to Cushing's syndrome and has edited a book on the subject. He also has extensive experience in treating patients with acromegaly, prolactinoma's, other pituitary tumors, diabetes insipidus, and hypopituitarism. He has extensive experience in the management of patients with growth hormone deficiency.

Dr. Blevins is medical director of the California Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF. His current research interests involve diagnostic testing in patients with hypercortisolism. He is currently evaluating new ways to test for the presence of Cushing's syndrome. He is also interested in clinical predictors of surgical and medical success with regards to the management of patients with different types of pituitary tumors. Some of this work involves collaboration with neuropathologists at UCSF. Dr. Blevins is also involved with industry sponsored trials to evaluate new pharmacologic therapies for patients with pituitary tumors.

Dr. Eugene Boisaubin is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Co-Director of the second-year Medical School course, Ethics and Professionalism in Medicine at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics. He also serves as the Director of the Ethics and Advisory Core for the NIH Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UTHealth. Dr. Boisaubin was awarded the school's first Distinguished Teaching Professorship and was recently named to the State of Texas Governing Board for the Physician Health Program. An academic internist, he has been a clinical medical ethicist and ethics consultant at three medical universities for over 25 years.

Dr. Boisaubin earned an A.B. in Zoology and Art History from Washington University, and his M.D. from the University of Missouri Medical School. He completed his professional training at Baylor College of Medicine and at the Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University. Before joining UTHealth, he was a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Assistant Professor Medicine, Cardiology
The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Bruce Darrow, M.D., Ph.D., graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received his doctorates from Washington University in St. Louis. As an academic physician, he has been recognized for excellence in medical education and teaching at every level of his training. During his medical residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, his peers awarded him the Dr. Joseph N. Muschel Housestaff Award for combining clinical skills with empathetic and compassionate care, and the Mount Sinai Community of Nurses has made him a three-time nominee for their Physician of the Year award. In 2007 and again in 2009, he won the Solomon Berson Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Darrow is the Medical Director of Telemetry Services for the Mount Sinai Heart Hospital and Director of the Nurse Practitioner inpatient service. Dr. Darrow is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Cardiovascular Disease and General Internal Medicine, and he is also Board Certified in Nuclear Cardiology. In 2005, Dr. Darrow was awarded Fellowship in the American College of Cardiology, and he is a long-standing member of both the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association.

In addition to his hospital practice, Dr. Darrow treats ambulatory patients with a broad spectrum of cardiac conditions, including hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, valvular heart disease, and heart rhythm abnormalities. Dr. Darrow provides consultative services for patients with geriatricians at the nearby Martha Stewart Center for Living

Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Chief, Cardiology Section, VACCHCS/UCSF Program
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Dr. Deedwania is one of the most recognizable figures in the fields of hypertension, heart failure, lipid disorders, ischemic heart disease, rhythm disorders and preventive cardiology. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and is Chief of the Cardiology Division for the Veterans Administration Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS)/UCSF Program in Fresno. Dr. Deedwania is also Director of Cardiovascular Research for the UCSF Fresno–Central San Joaquin Valley Medical Education Program and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Dr. Deedwania is a fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American College of Chest Clinicians, American College of Clinicians, a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American Federation of Clinical Research, the Council on Silent Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction, the International Society of Ambulatory Science and the New York Trudeau Society. He has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Laennec Society of the American Heart Association and he is currently President of the California Chapter of the American Society of Hypertension. Dr. Deedwania has authored numerous landmark clinical trials and has authored or coauthored more than 350 publications, including journal articles, book chapters and abstracts. Dr. Deedwania also serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Non invasive Cardiology and Senior Editor of Congestive Heart Failure.

Vice President of Medical Affairs,
System Chairman of Hospital Medicine,
Assistant Program Director for Internal Medicine
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana

Dr. Deitelzweig is also Past-President of the Medical Staff at Ochsner Clinic Foundation and currently serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Deitelzweig earned his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine through Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medicine/North Shore University Hospital in New York. He completed fellowships in Vascular Medicine and Hepatology through the Department of Internal Medicine at the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He holds an Executive Masters in Health Care Administration from the University of New Orleans and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Deitelzweig is a member and fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and also a member of the Society for Hospital Medicine, the American Medical Association, and the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, among others. In addition, Dr. Deitelzweig is Medical Director of the Hospice of Greater New Orleans.

Associate Professor of Hepatology, Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University, Chicago, Il;
Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Il

Steven L. Flamm received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed a residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Flamm is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He also serves as Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Northwestern and the Clinical Practice Director for the Division of Hepatology.

Dr. Flamm is board certified in gastroenterology. During his training, he served as Chief Resident in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and received a Clinical Investigator Training Award from Harvard Medical School. He has served on the Publication and Practice Guideline Committees of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Dr. Flamm is affiliated with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and has served as Region 7 representative to the UNOS Liver and Intestine Committee and as chair of the Region 7 Review Board.

Dr. Flamm’s research focuses on the use of emerging therapies in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and chronic hepatitis B. He has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Nephrology, and Hepatology. He has also written numerous reviews and book chapters and has lectured widely on the subject of hepatitis C and hepatitis B.

Program director of the Infectious Diseases
Fellowship at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleanse

Dr. Garcia-Diaz has spent her entire career studying and treating infectious diseases, having worked in cellular immunology before going to medical school. “Everything that I’ve done, even through medical school, was all geared toward doing this.” When she finished her residency in 1993 and entered fellowship training in infectious diseases, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was reaching its peak. Currently, 30% of her clinic is made up of HIV/AIDS patients.

Georgia Pediatric Pulmonology Associates, PC
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Morehouse School of Medicine
Founder and Medical Director Not One More Life, Inc

LeRoy M. Graham, Jr., Md, FCCP is Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine and Staff Physician at Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center, Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital, and Egleston Children’s Hospital, all located in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also one of the partners of Georgia Pediatric Pulmonology Associates, PC, a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also founder and Medical Director of Not One More Life Asthma, Inc. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. Dr. Graham completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, and he completed a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. In addition, he completed a fellowship in pulmonary research at the Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory of the Webb Waring Lung Institute in Denver. Dr. Graham serves on the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and on the AACP’s Diversity Task Force commissioned to address health disparities attributable to respiratory disease; he also serves as chair of the Task Force’s subcommittee on education and research.

Dr. Graham has published numerous articles and abstracts in Chest, Journal of the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American Review of Respiratory Disease, Pediatrics and Journal of the American Medical Association.

University of California, San Diego,
Professor of Medicine; Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program;
President, Heart Failure Society of America 2006-2008,
UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Dr. Greenberg, director of the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program, is a leading cardiologist specializing in heart failure. He is a founding member and past president of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA). He has been consistently selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" since 1995.

In addition to his clincial activities, Dr. Greenberg leads an active research program investigating basic mechanisms involved in heart failure and the development of new drugs and strategies to treat patients with this condition. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous cardiology journals and is an associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Greenberg has been working in cardiology since 1971, including positions at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Oregon Health Sciences University, Royal Postgraduate Medical College, Hammersmith Hospital in London, and College de France in Paris.

Dr. Greenberg has been at UCSD since 1995, and is currently Professor of Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine and Director, Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program at UCSD.

Section Head and Clinical Director,
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Parameswaran Hari is Clinical Director of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Program and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. After medical school in India, he completed training in Internal Medicine and Hematology at premier institutions in United Kingdom and then in Medical Oncology and Transplantation at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His primary interests are in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transpDr. Parameswaran Hari is Clinical Director of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Program and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. After medical school in India, he completed training in Internal Medicine and Hematology at premier institutions in United Kingdom and then in Medical Oncology and Transplantation at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His primary interests are in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and plasma cell disorders -- multiple Myeloma, AL Amyloidosis and other monoclonal gammopathies. He is also the scientific director of the plasma cell disorders and lymphoma working committees of the CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research).

Medical Director of the IMPACT (Internal Medicine Preoperative Assessment Consultation and Treatment) Center and the Anticoagulation Clinic within the Section of Hospital Medicine in the Dept. of General Internal Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Jaffer received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1994. His postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and has a busy practice in both Hospital and Perioperative Medicine.

Dr. Jaffer is actively involved in patient care, education, research and administration. He was selected as one of the Best Doctors in America 2005-6 by Best Doctors, an independent organization that uses exhaustive, annual surveys of the medical profession. These doctors were considered by other doctors to be the best in their specialties. He is currently heading up the working group to develop the Advanced Core Curriculum at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University. He has conducted research and published in several peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He will be an Associate editor of a soon to be published book titled: Hospital Medicine Secrets. He speaks nationally within his areas of interest and expertise, which include: Treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism, prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation therapy, specifically perioperative management and medical consultation.

He is an active member of several professional organizations including American College of Physicians (ACP), Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), the Anticoagulation Forum (AF), the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH). He is a member of the Education Committee of SHM and served on the Annual Meeting Planning Committee for the 2005 SHM meeting and will be the Precourse Director of the Perioperative and Consultative Medicine Precourse at Next year’s SHM meeting in Washington DC.

Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Center
Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Konstam is a Professor of Medicine (cardiology) and Professor of Radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts-New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center) continuously since 1981. He is Chief Physician Executive of The Cardiovascular Center, at Tufts Medical Center. He serves as the Chief of Cardiology and Director of Cardiovascular Development of New England Medical Center. Dr. Konstam is a cardiology specialist with vast experience in academic medicine and research. He served as the Chief of Cardiology at Tufts-NEMC from 1997 to 2007. In 2008, Dr. Konstam served as Senior Advisor for Cardiovascular Diseases at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, providing direction to the NHLBI's extramural cardiovascular research programs. His research has been published extensively in leading peer-reviewed medical journals and he lectured throughout the world on such topics as ventricular remodeling in heart failure, drug treatment and strategies for improving the quality of care. Dr. Konstam's principal clinical interest is heart failure and his principal areas of investigation are ventricular remodeling in heart failure, novel pharmaceutical and device treatment for heart failure, and strategies for improving quality of Cardiovascular care. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and did his post-graduate training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens' Hospital.

Division of Nephrology,
University of Virginia Health System,
Charlottesville, VA

I am primarily interested in improving the care of patients with all forms of kidney disease from acute kidney failure to end-stage kidney disease. Along these lines, I have several clinics per week that focus on patients with all forms of kidney disease with a specific focus on those patients with polycystic kidney disease and glomerulonephritis. I have started the first regional clinic that specifically focuses on patients with polycystic kidney disease. This clinic also allows patients with polycystic kidney disease to enter into clinical trials investigating novel therapies for this disease. I also serve as Medical Director for the kidney center clinic and strive to give patients a patient-centered, compassionate experience in our multidisciplinary clinic. I also serve as Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs for the Department of Medicine.

My research interests include: treatment of polycystic kidney disease, management of disorders of sodium and water balance and new diagnostic tools and therapies for acute kidney injury. Clinical trials in these areas are open to selected patients.

My other interest is in education and I serve as the fellowship director for the Nephrology division as well as Associate Director for the Medicine Residency program. We have developed a top training program for the next generation of Nephrologists by providing comprehensive education in all areas of Nephrology. Furthermore, I serve on the Executive Council of the American Society of Nephrology Training Program Directors which aims to set training standards for Nephrologists. I also serve on a number of national committees devoted to educational aspects of medical training.

Associate Professor Medicine, Nephrology
The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Education: MD, New York University, Residency, Internal Medicine; Duke University Hospital, Fellowship, Renal Disease; Mount Sinai Hospital

Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Gerald W. Staton MD, FCCP, FACP is a Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a Bachelors of Chemistry degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology and his Medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and was honored as the summa cum laude graduate of his class. Dr Staton’s internship and residency were completed at Stanford University and he was honored to be chosen for pulmonary fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University. He came to Emory in 1981 as an Instructor of Medicine, rising to Professor in 1993. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Staton has previously published research relating to the diagnosis and immunopathogenesis of sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases and the effects of off bypass coronary artery surgery on lung function. His current research interests are the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis.

Dr. Staton has been named one of the Best Pulmonary Physicians in Atlanta from 1995 up to the most recent listing in Atlanta Magazine and has been chosen one of the Best Doctors in America from 1995 to currently.

Chief of the Division of Cardiology,
Director of Nuclear Cardiology, at Tufts Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Udelson earned his medical degree form New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. He also completed a Cardiology Research Fellowship at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland and a Cardiology Fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center, in Boston. Dr. Udelson is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine.

Dr. Udelson's research interests include the effects of new therapeutic modalities in the settings of heart failure and chronic coronary artery disease; the development of imaging modalities in heart disease; the effect of immediate glucose-insulin-potassium given in ambulances and Emergency Departments for acute coronary syndromes; myocardial viability and left ventricular remodeling in the occluded arteries; and strategies to incorporate perfusion imaging in the Emergency Department. He has served as the Associate Editor for the American Heart Association's cardiovascular journal Circulation since 2004, and was appointed as the initial Editor-in- Chief for the journal Circulation: Heart Failure in 2008. He is on the editorial board and has served as a Guest-Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, and has served on the AHA/ACC/ASNC Radionuclide Imaging Guidelines Writing Task Force.

Dr. Udelson is Past-President of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and was recently elected to a 5-year term serving on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He has chaired the ACC's Cardiovascular Imaging Committee, served on the ACC Publications Committee, and is beginning a term as Chair of the ACC Governance Committee. He has served as a member of the FDA Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Panel, is an invited advisor to the FDA's Division of Medical Imaging and Hematology Products, and has been invited as an ad hoc member of the FDA's Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Panel. He is a member of the Association of University Cardiologists and the Association of Professors of Cardiology. He has been named several times by Boston magazines as one of Boston's Best Doctors in Cardiology.

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Division Chief, Prof of Medicine, Endocrinology
Georgetown University Medical Center

Joseph G. Verbalis, MD is Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Chief of the Division on Endocrinology and Metabolism at Georgetown University. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980-1995 until he was recruited to GU. From 2004 to 2007 he served as interim chair of the Department of Medicine, and relinquished this position to direct Georgetown's CTSA effort. He was one of the founding PIs of the GU GCRC in 1999, served as Chair of the GAC from 1999 to 2002, and has been the Program Director of the GCRC since 2002. He has been continuously funded as a PI on NIH research grants since 1988, and is currently the PI of two NIH R01s focusing on mechanistic studies of kidney and bone complications of hyponatremia, and the GU/MedStar CTSA Planning grant, and is a co-PI of an R01 studying hormonal effects on cognition in post-menopausal women. In 2007 he was the awarded the Berthold Medal by the German Endocrine Society for outstanding scientific achievement in endocrinology by individuals who have excelled in combining both basic and clinical research. He has mentored many fellows and junior faculty members through directorship of the endocrinology fellowship training programs at both the University of Pittsburgh and GU, and is a member of the training faculty of the GU T32 Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience.