Faculty

Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Chair, Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Medical Specialty Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Ricard Corcelles, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Marcio Griebeler, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Samina Yunus, MD
Family Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Jaime Almandoz, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Assistant Medical Director, Center for Translational Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center 
Dallas, TX

Sergio Bardaro, MD
Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
MetroHealth
Cleveland, OH

Maria R. Brown, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Valley Bariatric
Gilbert, AZ

César Bustos
Spanish Society of Obesity

Felipe Casanueva, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine
Santiago de Compostela University
Santiago University Hospital Complex CIBER of Obesity and Nutrition Physiopathology
Carlos III Health Institute; Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Donald Cundiff, MD
Firelands Center for Coordinated Care
Sandusky, OH

Adrian Dan, MD, FACS
Program Director, Advanced GI MIS Foregut and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Program
Summa Health System
Akron, OH

Barry A. Franklin, PhD
Director, Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Beaumont Health
Professor of Physiology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Royal Oak, MI 

W. Timothy Garvey, MD
Associate Director, Professor
Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions
Senior Scientist, UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Monique Hassan, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic
Dallas, TX

Robert Kushner, MD
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Albert Lecube, PhD, MD
Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida
Spain

Donna Ryan, MD
Past President, World Obesity Federation
Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical
Baton Rouge, LA

Fatima Sabench, MD
Professor Aggregate of Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery
Degana Faculty of Medicine and C. Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Carrer de Sant Llorenç
Spain

Lina Alkhaled, MD
Center for Pediatric Endocrinology
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

Paulino Alvarez, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Ali Aminian, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

Moises Auron, MD
Department of Hospital Medicine
Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Stephanie Ash, MSW
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Reena Bose, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Rheanna Brown, PhD
Department of General Surgery

W. Scott Butsch, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute

Peminda Cabandugama, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Maria Luiza Caramori, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Derrick Cetin, DO
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

Kendalle Cobb, MD
Associate Chief of Staff

Ricardo Correa, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Juan Pablo del Rincon, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Emily Durfey, LSW
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Alicia Faggioli, PharmD
Pharmacy

Chelsea (Xiaoxi) Feng, MD
Department of General Surgery

Emily Fink, PsyD
Department of General Surgery

Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD
Department Chair
The Jan Bleeksma Chair in Vascular Cell Biology and Atherosclerosis
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Prevention
Director, Center for Microbiome & Human Health
Lerner Research Institute

Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA
Director, Enterprise Weight Management Center
Vice Chair for Psychology

Matt Kroh, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

Ryan Majcher, RD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Vinni Makin, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Kevin Malloy, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Yael Mauer, MD, MPH
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Salvador Navarrete, MD 
Department of General Surgery

Ninoska Peterson, PhD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

Carmen Polanco, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Ricardo Rosero, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Ashish Sarraju, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Roberto Simons-Linares, MD
Director of Bariatric Endoscopy
Department Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition

Alexis Supan, MPH, RD
Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine

Oscar Morey Vargas, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Willy Valencia, MD
Center for Geriatric Medicine
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Specialty Institute

Stephanie Whitling, PA-C
Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine

Jerry Wilmink, PhD, MBA
Cleveland Clinic Innovations

Rickesha Wilson, MD
Department of General Surgery

Monica Yepes-Rios, MD
Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

Lina Alkhaled, MD

Stephanie Ash, MSW

Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD

W. Scott Butsch, MD, MSc, FTOS

Peminda Cabandugama, MD

Ricard Corcelles, MD

Ricardo Correa, MD

David Creel, PhD

Danielle Diemer, FNP-C

Jennifer Duncan, PsyD

Marcio Griebeler, MD

Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA

Diana Isaacs, PharmD, RPh

Deb Kangisser, PA

Roy Kim, MD, MPH

Shannon Knapp, BSN

Matthew Kroh, MD

Jennifer K. Mackey, MSN

Ryan Majcher, RD

Vinni Makin, MD

Yael Mauer, MD

Neetu Mulchandani, MD

Ellen S. Rome, MD, MPH

Ricardo Rosero, MD

Roberto Simons-Linares, MD

Irina Todorov, MD

Willy Valencia, MD

Samina Yunus, MD