Barbara B. Kahn MD

Principal Investigator
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Barbara B. Kahn is an endocrinologist and the George Richards Minot professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Vice Chair for Research Strategy in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and was formerly the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received the Banting Medal from the American Diabetes Association and the Gerald Aurbach Award from the Endocrine Society. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Kahn’s pioneering research established a critical role for the GLUT4 glucose transporter in adipocytes in regulating systemic insulin sensitivity and Type 2 diabetes risk. She performed early investigations of GLUT4 regulation in humans with obesity and diabetes. These, with observations in novel genetic mouse models created in her lab, led to her discovery that GLUT4 down-regulation in adipocytes can cause Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Kahn identified the underlying molecular mechanisms including co-discovering a novel class of mammalian lipids with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects. She also discovered that AMP-activated-protein-kinase regulates systemic energy balance.

Research

We use genomic, metabolomics and lipidomic approaches in human tissues and genetically-engineered mouse models to discover novel adipocyte-associated molecules. This has revealed important biomarkers and mechanisms for insulin resistance and diabetes. For example, we demonstrated that retinol-binding-protein-4 levels are elevated in insulin-resistant people and this causes insulin resistance by activating both innate and adaptive immune responses in adipose tissue. We also showed that de novo lipogenesis in adipocytes has a major role in regulating systemic insulin sensitivity. With Alan Saghatelian, we used global lipidomics to discover a novel class of lipids made in mammalian tissues, which correlate highly with insulin sensitivity in humans and have anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects. We are investigating the receptors/signaling pathways by which these lipids enhance insulin secretion and insulin action, and determining the biosynthetic and degradative enzymes that regulate these lipids. A major goal is to discover new approaches to prevent and treat diabetes.

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1972 - B.A. Stanford University

    1975 - M.S. University of California Berkeley, Health and Medical Sciences

    1977 - M.D. Stanford University Medical School

  • 1977-1980 - Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine
    University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

    1980-1982 - Clinical Fellowship, General Internal Medicine
    University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

    1982-1985 - Endocrine Fellowship, Cellular Metabolism and Obesity Section National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    1985-1986 - Senior Staff Fellow, Experimental Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition Section, Molecular, Cellular and Nutritional Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

  • 1978 - California Medical License

    1980 - Diplomate in Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

    1985 - Diplomate in Endocrinology and Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine

    1986 - Massachusetts Medical License

  • 1986-1989 - Instructor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    1989-1994 - Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    1990-2000 - Chief, Diabetes Unit
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    1994-2000 - Associate Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    2000-Present - Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    2000-2011 - Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2006-Present - Associate Member
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

    2006-Present - George Richard Minot Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    2007 - Interim Faculty Dean for Academic Programs
    Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2007 - Member
    Harvard Medical School Council of Academic Deans

    2010-2018 - Senior Associate Member
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

    2011-present - Vice Chair for Research Strategy Department of Medicine
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2018-present - Institute Member
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

  • 1986-1996 - Associate in Medicine
    Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

    1996-present - Physician
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

  • 1980-1981 - Staff Medical Consultant - Behavioral Medicine Clinic
    University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

    1981-1982 - Staff Medical Consultant - High Risk Obstetrics Clinic
    University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

    1980-1982 - General Medicine Consultant
    University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

    1987-1996 - Staff Diabetes Consultant, Diabetes and Pregnancy Cases
    Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

  • 1988-1992 - Director, Diabetes Clinics
    Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

    1990-2000 - Chief, Diabetes Unit Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    1992-1996 - Director, Endocrine Grand Rounds/Molecular Endocrinology Series
    Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School

    1998-2001 - Associate Director, Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center (NIH funded center involving Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard School of Public Health, New England Medical Center and Boston University)

    2000-2020- Director, Metabolic Physiology Core
    Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, Boston, MA

    2000-2011 - Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2001-2004 - Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2007 - Interim Faculty Dean for Academic Programs
    Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2007 - Interim Chair, Committee on Senior Appointments
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2011-present Vice Chair for Research Strategy, Department of Medicine
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2023-present - Associate Director
    Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, Boston, MA

    2023-present - Co-Director, Metabolic Physiology Core, Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, Boston, MA

  • 1973-1975 - Medical School Admissions, Health and Medical Sciences
    University of California Berkeley

    1973-1974 - Medical School Curriculum, Health and Medical Sciences
    University of California Berkeley

    1980-1981 - Nursing Physician Relations
    University of California Davis Medical Center

    1989-1992 - Laboratory Safety Committee
    Beth Israel Hospital

    1990-2000 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Clinical Research Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    1992-1998 - Co-Chair, Diabetes Education Advisory Board
    Beth Israel Hospital

    1998 - Member, Task Force on Disease Management
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Diabetes Center Joint Venture

    1998 - Member, Implementation Committee
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Diabetes Center Joint Venture

    1998-2004 - Executive Committee
    Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center - NIH funded

    2000-2020- Executive Committee
    Boston Area Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (DERC) - NIH funded

    2001-2003 - Search Committee, Director of Clinical Research
    Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School

    2001-2004 - Promotions, Reappointments and Appointments Committee
    Harvard Medical School

    2002-2003 - Search Committee, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry
    Harvard School of Public Health

    2002-present - Promotions Committee, Department of Medicine
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2004-2005 - Search Committee, Chief Medical Officer
    Joslin Diabetes Center

    2004-present - Member, Committee on Senior Appointments (COSA)
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2006-2007 - Search Committee, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    2006-2009 - Subcommittee of Professors
    Harvard Medical School

    2007 - Search Committee, Chief Academic Officer
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2007- Chair, Committee on Senior Appointments (COSA)
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2009-present - Institutional (BIDMC) Liason, Collaboration Coordinating Committee
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

    2009-2011 - Co-Chair, Junior Faculty Search Committee, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2009-2011 - Search Committee, Neuroscientist Faculty Recruitment, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2011-2012 - Member, Research Vision and Strategy Committee
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2011-present - Selection Committee for Associate Members
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

    2012-present - Member, Department of Medicine Academic Mission and Research Development Committee
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2013-2014 - Broadnext10 Scientific Frontier – Metabolism Subgroup, Strategic Planning Committee for the next 10 years of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

    2013-present - Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Medicine Foundation Inc. Board, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2016-present - Member, Department of Medicine Committee on the Advancement of Women
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2018-present - Search Committee, Director of Cardiovascular Life Sciences Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    2018-2021 - Co-Chair Committee on Leadership and Career Development for Women, Department of Medicine
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2019-present - Chair, Selection Committee for the Department of Medicine’s Photo Exhibit honoring women in medicine – “Wall of Women”
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2020-present - Member, Research Cores Advisory Committee (RCAC)
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2020-present - Steering Committee Member, Institutional Strategic Planning for Innovation, Research and Education (InSPIRE BIDMC)
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    2020-present - Advisory Board Member, Reproductive Outcomes of Stress and Aging (ROSA) Center
    Harvard Medical School

    2021-2022 - Search Committee, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  • 1992-1994 - Scientific Sessions Committee
    American Diabetes Association

    1993-present - Scientific Advisory Committee
    International Symposium on Insulin Receptors and Insulin Action

    1994 - Consultant on Basic Biomedical Research related to Diabetes
    National Diabetes Advisory Board

    1997 - Chairperson, Pharmacologic Approaches to Metabolic Control Subcommittee NIH Conference on Diabetes Mellitus: Challenges and Opportunities

    1997-1999 - American Diabetes Association Research Policy Committee

    1998-2008 - Scientific Advisory Board
    CEPTYR, Inc., Seattle, WA

    1999-2002 - American Diabetes Association Scientific and Medical Meetings Oversight Committee (Chairperson 2000-2002)

    1999-2003 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Xcellsyz, London, England

    2000-2002 - American Diabetes Association Professional Section Steering Committee

    2000-2004 - Scientific Advisory Board
    University of Colorado NIH-funded Center for Nutrition Research, Denver, CO

    2001 - NHLBI/NIH Working Group on the Pathophysiology of Obesity-Associated Cardiovascular Disease

    2001-2004 - Committee on Diabetes
    American Heart Association

    2001-2009 - Metabolic Disease Advisory Board
    Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Mannheim, Germany

    2002 - Steering committee for reorganization of NIH Study Sections on Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive Endocrinology

    2002-2003 - Steering Committee
    Endocrine Society Scientific Sessions

    2002-2003 - Publications Committee
    American Diabetes Association

    2002-2004 - Committee on Obesity
    American Heart Association

    2003-2004 - Board of Directors
    American Diabetes Association

    2003-2004 - President
    Interurban Clinical Club

    2004-2007 - Advisory Board for Metabolic Disease Program
    University of Kobe, Japan

    2005-2007 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Diabetes Gene Discovery Group (DGDG), Montreal, Canada

    2006-2009 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Wyeth Pharmaceutical Company, Cambridge, MA

    2008-2010 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Amylin Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA

    2008-2010 - NIH Diabetes Research Strategic Planning Committee, Obesity sub-group

    2008-2010 - External Scientific Advisor, Taskforce for Obesity Research at Southwestern (TORS), NIH Roadmap Consortium
    University of Texas Southwestern

    2009-2013 - Scientific Advisory Board
    Novartis, Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, MA

    2010-2011 - American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Integrated Physiology/Obesity Subcommittee

    2012-2013 - American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Insulin Signaling/Insulin Action Subcommittee

    2012-2016 - Endocrine Laureate Awards Committee
    Endocrine Society, Bethesda, MD

    2013-present - American Diabetes Association Program for Roadmap Grants

    2013-present - Mentor Advisory Panel, American Diabetes Association, Pathway to Stop Diabetes. Inaugural program to find, fund and stimulate the development of the next generation of diabetes researchers.

    2018-2022- Medicine, Science & Health Care Awards Committee (Chair 2000-2022)
    American Diabetes Association

    2018-2021- NIH/NIDDK National Advisory Council

    2019-present - Scientific Advisory Board
    Harrington Discovery Institute

    2019-present - External Advisory Board
    Johns Hopkins University-University of Maryland Diabetes Research Center

  • 1998-2008 - CEPTYR, Inc., Scientific Advisory Board
    Seattle, WA

    1999-2003 - Xcellsyz, Scientific Advisory Board
    London, England

    2001-2008 - Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Metabolic Disease Advisory Board
    Mannheim, Germany

    2005-2008 - Syndexa Pharmaceuticals Corp., Scientific Advisory Board
    Boston, MA

    2006 - FibroGen, Inc., Scientific Consultant
    San Francisco, CA

    2006-2009 - Wyeth Pharmaceutical Company, Scientific Advisory Board
    Cambridge, MA

    2007 - Albany Molecular Research, Inc., Scientific Consultant
    Albany, NY

    2008-2010 - Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Cardiometabolic Advisory Board
    San Diego, CA

    2009-2013 - Novartis International AG, Novartis Science Board
    Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, MA

    2010-2014 - Debiopharm, Scientific Consultant
    Lausanne, Switzerland

    2012-2014 - Piramal Enterprises Limited, Scientific Advisory Board
    Mumbai, India

    2014-present - Janssen Research and Development, Scientific Advisory Board
    Raritan, NJ

    2018 - Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc., Consultant
    Cambridge, MA

    2022-present - Vida Ventures Advisors, LLC, Consultant
    Boston, MA

    2023-present - Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Consultant
    Pasadena, CA

  • 2000 - Co-Chairperson, New York Academy of Sciences symposium "PKB/Akt - a gatekeeper for metabolism and apoptosis"

    2001 - Co-Chairperson, Keystone symposium - "Obesity and the regulation of energy homeostasis"

    2001-2003 - Co-Chair (elected), FASEB conference on Glucose Transporter Biology

    2002-2003 - Chair, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology symposium on "Novel Signaling Pathways involved in Leptin Action and CNS Regulation of Energy Balance"

    2002-2004 - Program Committee, AMP Kinase 3rd International Symposium, Australia

    2003-2005 - Chair (elected), FASEB conference on Glucose Transporter Biology

    2010-2012 - Co-Chair, FASEB conference on AMPK: Novel Biological Actions & Roles in Diseases
    Asilomar, CA

    2014-2015 - Co-Chair, Keystone Symposium on Diabetes
    Kyoto, Japan

    2015 - Organizer and Invited Speaker, Key Symposium “Insulin Resistance in Common Disease”. Sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Internal Medicine
    Boston, MA

  • 1978-1986 - American College of Physicians

    1980-1984 - American Association of Diabetes Educators, Psychosocial Committee

    1981-1987 - Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine

    1981-present - American Diabetes Association, Professional Section Member

    1987-present - American Federation for Medical Research

    1989-present - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    1990-present - American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected to Fellow in 2006)

    1994-present - American Society for Clinical Investigation

    1994-2001 - Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International

    1995-1998 - European Association for the Study of Diabetes

    1995-present - Endocrine Society

    1998-2000 - North American Association for the Study of Obesity

    2001-present - Association of American Physicians

    2005-present - Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

    2005-present National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences) (elected)

    2009-2010, 2012, 2014 - American Society for Microbiology

    2011, 2013-2019 - The Obesity Society

    2012-present - Association of Specialty Professors (ASP)

    2017-present - National Academy of Sciences (elected)

    2019-present - European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

    2019-present - American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA (elected)

    2020-2021 - New York Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • 1991-1994 - Diabetes

    1993-1997 - American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism

    1995-1997 - Endocrinology

    1995-1997 - Diabetologia - Advisory Board member

    2001-2004 - American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism

    2002-2007 - Journal of Biological Chemistry

    2005-2010 - Endocrine Reviews - Associate Editor

    2005-present - Cell Metabolism

    2008-2011 - Science, Board of Screening Editors

    2009-present - EMBO Molecular Medicine

    2018-present - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  • 1989-2005 - Ad hoc reviewer
    Veteran's Administration Research and Merit Grants

    1990-1995 - Grant Reviewer
    University of Michigan Diabetes Center

    1991-1995 - Grant Reviewer
    Washington University Diabetes Center

    1995 - Ad hoc Reviewer
    Metabolism Study Section, NIH

    1995-1997 - NIH Reviewer Reserve, Metabolism Study Section

    1996-1997 - Member
    NIH Special Study Sections

    1996-1998 - Member
    American Diabetes Association Research Grant Review Board

    1996-2009 - Reviewer
    British Diabetes Association Research Grants

    1997-2001 - Member
    NIH Metabolism Study Section

    1999-2005 - Grant Reviewer
    Swiss National Science Foundation

    1999 - Ad hoc Reviewer
    Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Research Grants

    2001-present - Grant Reviewer
    The Welcome Trust, London

    2002 - Grant Reviewer
    French Ministry of Research

    2005-2009 - Grant Reviewer
    The Medical Foundation/Charles A. King Trust Fellowship Program

    2007 - Ad hoc Member
    Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes Study Section (IPOD), NIDDK/NIH

    2013-present - Grant Reviewer and Mentor Advisory Group
    American Diabetes Association, Pathway to Stop Diabetes Program

    2019-present - Member
    Harrington Discovery Institute, Cleveland, OH

  • 1980 - Research Award
    The Diabetes Association of Sacramento

    1980 - Biodynamics/Boehringer Manneheim Research Award

    1981 - Faculty Research Award
    University of California Davis Medical School

    1981 - Research Award, Division of General Medicine
    University of California Davis Medical School

    1986-1991 - Physician-Scientist Award
    National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

    1991-1993 - Capps Scholar in Diabetes
    Harvard Medical School

    1991 - Banting and Best Lecturer
    Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto

    1992 - Award for "Outstanding International Contributions to Research in Diabetes Mellitus"
    American Diabetes Association, Missouri Affiliate

    1993 - Max Miller Memorial Lecture,
    American Federation for Clinical Research, Midwest Metabolism Section

    1994 - Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation

    1995 - Eli Lilly Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement
    American Diabetes Association

    1999 - Elected to the Interurban Clinical Club, founded by Sir William Osler

    2000 - Visiting Professor
    Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    2000 - Honorary Masters Degree
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    2001 - Elected to the Association of American Physicians

    2003 - Wolfe Family Endowed Lectureship
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    2003 - Mosenthal Award
    American Diabetes Association Eastern Region, New York

    2005 - Nelson Goldberg Lecture in Signal Transduction and Metabolism
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    2005 - Catherine Tuck Memorial Lecture
    Columbia University Medical School, New York, NY

    2005 - Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
    Washington, DC

    2005 - The 10th Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, Molecular Medicine
    University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

    2005 - Charles H. Best Award
    Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada

    2005 - Jacobaeus Priz
    Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden

    2006 - National Institutes of Health Merit Award

    2006 - Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

    2006 - George Richards Minot Endowed Chair in Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    2006 - Research chosen for presentation at NIH National Advisory Council
    NIH, Bethesda, MD

    2007 - Research discoveries featured in the publication: "NIDDK: Recent Advances and Emerging Opportunities"

    2007 - Harold Rifkin Award and Lectureship
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY

    2008 - Dodge Lectureship
    University of Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri

    2008 - Roger Guillemin Nobel Lecturer
    Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

    2008 - Top Doctor in Endocrinology, Castle Connolly Medical LTD, reported in Boston Magazine

    2009 - Inaugural Willard J. and Priscilla F. Visek Lecturer
    University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

    2010 - Beth Zaruby Lectureship at the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre
    University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    2010 - Gerald Aurbach Award for outstanding contributions to research in Endocrinology.
    Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

    2010 - Top Doctor in Endocrinology, Castle Connolly Medical LTD, reported in Boston Magazine

    2010-2011 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    2011 - 15th Louis Izenstein Lectureship
    Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

    2013 - Kern Lectureship Award, “Molecular Mechanisms and Pathophysiology of Lipid Storage”
    Kern Lipid Conference, Vail, CO

    2013 - 11th Albert Lehninger Award
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    2016 - Journal of Lipid Research Lectureship Award. Presented at the Keystone meeting on “New Therapeutics for Diabetes and Obesity”
    La Jolla, CA

    2016 - Thorndike Lecture
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2016 - Banting Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement
    American Diabetes Association 76th Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, LA

    2016 - 23rd Dewitt Goodman Lectureship
    Columbia University Medical School, NY, NY

    2017 - Charles Hollenberg Lectureship
    Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Toronto, Canada

    2017 - Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
    Washington, DC

    2017 - John Baxter Memorial Lecture
    Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

    2018 - Nancy and Ann Hatfield Alumnae Award for outstanding contributions to the community through dedication to the highest ideas
    The Barstow School, Kansas City, MO

    2018 - 2019 FASEB Excellence in Science Award
    Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

    2019 - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Cambridge, MA

    2019 - Priscilla White Memorial Lecturer
    Joslin Clinic and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

    2020 - Herbert E. Carter Lecturer in Nutritional Biochemistry and Preventive Medicine
    University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

    2020 - Franklin Epstein Memorial Lecturer
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2021 - Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research
    Columbia University, New York, NY

    2022 - John P. Peters Memorial Lecturer
    Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT

    2022 - Inaugural Millie Hughes-Fulford, Ph.D. Award for outstanding achievements in lipid research. The Eicosanoid Research Foundation. Presented at the 17th International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases
    New Orleans, LA

    2023 - Gerald Reaven Memorial Lecturer
    Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA

    2023 - Virgil Brown Lecturer, Fredrickson Lipid Research Conference, held at Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, TN

  • 2000 - Visiting Professor
    Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    2001 - Pfizer Visiting Professor
    Pacific Northwest Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

    2002 - Burroughs Welcome Fund and the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology Visiting Professor in the Basic Medical Sciences
    University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Durham, NC

    2007 - Harold Rifkin Visiting Professorship
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

    2007 - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research Visiting Professor in Diabetes and Metabolism
    Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA

    2007 - Pfizer Visiting Professor
    Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    2007 - Max Wintrobe Lectureship
    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

    2008 - Dodge Lectureship Series
    University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO

    2011 - Guest Lecturer and Visiting Professor for the 15th Louise Izenstein Lectureship
    Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

    2019 - Priscilla White Memorial Lecturer
    Joslin Clinic and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

    2020 - Herbert E Carter Lecturer in Nutritional Biochemistry and Preventive Medicine
    University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

    2022 - John Peters Lectureship, Department of Medicine
    Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT

    2023 - Gerald Reaven Memorial Lectureship, Department of Medicine
    Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA