Faculty
Activity Directors
Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Chair, Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
W. Scott Butsch, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Ricard Corcelles, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Jennifer Duncan, PsyD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Marcio Griebeler, MD
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA
Director, Enterprise Weight Management Center
Vice Chair for Psychology
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Vinni Makin, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Guest Faculty
Jamy D. Ard, MD
Professor, Epidemiology and Prevention
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, NC
Sergio Bardaro, MD
Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
MetroHealth
Cleveland, OH
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
Omar Ghanem, MD
Metabolic Surgeon
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Bret Goodpaster, PhD
Scientific Director, Senior Investigator
Translational Research Institute
AdventHealth
Orlando, FL
Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA
ConscienHealth
Pittsburgh, PA
Derek LeRoith, MD
Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY
Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS
Past President, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
Medical Director, CHI Memorial's Weight Management Center
CHI Memorial Medical Group
Chattanooga, TN
Donna Ryan, MD
Past President, World Obesity Federation
Professor Emerita
Pennington Biomedical
Baton Rouge, LA
Josep Vidal, MD, PhD
Obesity Unit, Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit
University Hospital Clinic
Barcelona, Spain
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Lina Alkhaled, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Ali Aminian, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Reena Bose, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Jennifer Brubaker, PhD, APRN
Cleveland Clinic Sleep Center
Neurological Institute
Be Well Kids Program
Children’s Hospital
Peminda Cabandugama, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Derrick Cetin, DO
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Kendalle Cobb, MD
Associate Chief of Staff
Clinical Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Ricardo Correa, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Katy Corte, RD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
David Creel, PhD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Beth Czerwony, RD
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Emily Durfey, LSW
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Oluwatosin Goje, MD
Center for Specialized Women’s Health
Kasey Goodpaster, PhD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Matthew Kampert, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery
Roy Kim, MD
Center for Pediatric Endocrinology
Shannon Knapp, BSN
Cleveland Clinic
Matt Kroh, MD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Sobia Laique, MD
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Ryan Majcher, RD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Yael Mauer, MD, MPH
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Ninoska Peterson, PhD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Jessica Ruff, MD, MA, MSPH
Wellness Institute
Roberto Simons Linares, MD
Director of Bariatric Endoscopy
Department Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Taylor Stephens, PhD
Be Well Kids Program
Children’s Hospital
Serena Stevens, PhD
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Willy Marcos Valencia, MD, MS
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Amy Wolf, RD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Samina Yunus, MD
Family Medicine
Wei Zhang, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Planning Committee
Lina Alkhaled, MD
Summer Azmat, MD
Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
W. Scott Butsch, MD, MSc, FTOS
Ricard Corcelles, MD
Peminda Cabandugama, MD
Danielle Diemer, FNP-C
Emily Durfey, LSW
Marcio Griebeler, MD
Matthew Kampert, DO
Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA
Diana Isaacs, PharmD, RPh
Roy Kim, MD, MPH
Shannon Knapp, BSN
Jennifer K. Mackey, MSN
Vinni Makin, MD
Kevin Pantalone, DO
Ellen S. Rome, MD, MPH
Robert Saper, MD
Samina Yunus, MD