Meet the Experts

Chair and Executive Medical Director, UCLA Department of Medicine

Research interests: Molecular mechanisms for cardiometabolic disease; Mitochondria and insulin resistance; Insulin signaling and metabolism in cardiovascular complications of diabetes and obesity

Scientific Director, Metabolism and Mitochondria Imaging Core

Research interests: Mitochondria; Metabolism; Microscopy

Senior Executive Academic Vice Chair, Department of Medicine

Research interests: Thyroid hormone action; Metabolic regulation; Brain injury and regeneration

Director and Principal Investigator, UCLA South Bay Endocrine Clinical Trials Program

Research interests: Diabetes and obesity; Lipids; Cardiometabolic

Research interests: Type 1 and type 2 diabetes; Diabetes technology; Diabetes health disparities

Director, Pituitary & Neuroendocrine Tumor Program

Research interests: Pituitary tumors; Identifying novel molecular targets and high throughput drug screening; Tumoroid development

Director, Interdisciplinary Training Program in Metabolism T32

Research interests: Integrative metabolism; Estrogen receptor action; Women's health

Research interests: Cardiomyocyte maturation; Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; iPSC disease modeling

Research interests: Liver metabolism; Lipid metabolism; Organ cross-talk interaction

Lead, Onco-Endocrinology Program

Research interests: Immune related adverse events from cancer immunotherapy; Autoimmune disease and sex differences; Thyroid cancer

Research interests: Diabetes; Cancer survivorship; Decision analysis/simulation modeling

Research interests: Thyroid disease; Maternal-child health; Environmental toxicants

Research interests: Cardiovascular disease; Aging; Metabolism

Research interests: Thyroid hormone receptor isoform-specific action in metabolism; Thyroid hormone action in brain

Co-Director, CTSI KL2 Program

Research interests: Prediabetes; Type 2 diabetes; Obesity

Research interests: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations; Nuclear DNA mismatch

Research interests: Platelets; Mitochondrial metabolism; Thrombosis

Research interests: Type 2 diabetes; Health services research; Pharmacoepidemiology

Research interests: Type I diabetes and type II diabetes; Diabetes-pancreatic cancer link; Neuroenergetic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease

Research interests: Cardiomyopathy; Fibrosis; Cardiac remodeling

Director, UCLA Lipidomics Lab

Research interests: Lipidomics; Metabolism; Isotopic labeling

Medical Director, Inpatient Glycemic Service

Research interests: Diabetes; Artificial intelligence; Diabetes technology

Research interests: High throughput screen; Neuroendocrine tumor; 3D model system

Research interests: Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Metabolism

Research interests: Mitochondrial metabolism; Cardiac metabolism; 2-Hydroxyglutarate biology

Research interests: Metabolic disease; Integrative physiology; Mitochondrial quality control