Diabetes & Obesity

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego

EDUCATION:
• 1987 BS in Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1997 MD at Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• 1997 PhD in Genetics at Harvard University in Michael Greenberg's laboratory
• 1997-1999 Internship/Residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• 1999-2001 Fellowship in Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital
• 2000-2005 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School (Cell Biology and Systems Biology) in Lewis Cantley's laboratory

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• 1987-1997 Harvard Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow
• 1988-1992 Dennison Biomedical Research Foundation Fellow
• 1993-1996 Albert J Ryan Foundation Fellow
• 1997-1999 William Osler Society of Fellows in Medicine
• 2000-2003 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2004-2009 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences
• 2004 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Award in Aging
• 2006-2008 V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award
• 2008-2013 NIH Director's New Innovator Award
• 2010-2015 Era of Hope Scholar Award for Breast Cancer Research from the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
• 2011 Inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Lab studies the phosphoinositides, a group of signaling molecules involved in growth factor signaling, membrane trafficking, and probably many more functions.