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