Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Departments of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Type 2 Diabetes (Oct. 7, 10:35 AM )
Presentation Summary
Dr. Shulman is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also Associate Director of the Yale Diabetes-Endocrinology Research Center and Associate Director of the Yale Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Shulman joined Yale in 1987; before that he was a faculty member as Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Shulman completed his undergraduate studies in biophysics at the University of Michigan, and received combined MD-PhD degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Following internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Schulman conducted an endocrine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and additional postdoctoral work in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Shulman has published over 260 articles on the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. He has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.
