Peter W. F. Wilson, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, a Professor of Public Health (Global Health and Epidemiology) in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and the Director of Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He graduated with a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio in 1974. His postgraduate medical training took place at Duke University, and he is board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He was previously employed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1978–1999) and was formerly the Director of Laboratories at the Framingham Heart Study (1983–2003), a Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine (1999–2003), and a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (2003–2006). His awards and honors include the U.S. Public Health Service Citation Award (1989), the U.S. Public Service Commendation Medal (1994), and Who's Who in America (2000) and was elected a member of the Association of American Physicians (2005). He received the Arthur Agatston Award from the Society of Clinical Cardiovascular Tomography in 2017 and the W. Virgil Brown Distinguished Achievement Award from the National Lipid Association in 2021.
Arshed A. Quyyumi is currently a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and the Director at the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Quyyumi also holds the Bruce Logue Chair for Cardiovascular Research. He is board certified in Cardiology and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Medicine. He graduated from Guy’s Hospital medical school in London, and after completing part of his medicine and cardiology training in London, he completed his fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, in Boston and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. He was a Senior Investigator and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Cardiology Branch of the National Institutes of Health for several years before arriving at Emory. His research focus over the last quarter century has been clinical and translational research in vascular biology, progenitor cells and angiogenesis, and biomarkers and cardiovascular omics. His current studies include comprehensive assessments of vascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness and thickness in patients with arteriosclerosis and its risk factors.
David Benkeser is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. He obtained a B.S. in 2010 at the University of Georgia, an M.P.H. in 2010 at the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in 2015 at the University of Washington. His honors and awards include the Michael J. Lynn Award in Collaborative Biostatistics in 2021, an Emory Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Teaching Award (runner-up) in 2019, a NIAID Travel Scholarship Workshop Big Data and Infectious Diseases in 2015, a WNAR Distinguished Oral Presentation in 2015, an NCI Cancer Epidemiology Training Grant from 2013 to 2015, an NHLBI Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Grant from 2010 to 2012, and a University of Georgia College of Public Health Excellence in Biostatistics Award in 2010.
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Lawrence S. Phillips was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard Medical School and then completed a residency at Rush University Medical Center, two years at the CDC, and fellowship training at Washington University School of Medicine. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism, is listed as one of the Best Doctors in America, and has been a Professor of Medicine at Emory for 30 years. At Emory, he has been the Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center. He is currently the Director of the Clinical Studies Center at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He has been engaged in research, teaching, and the clinical practice of endocrinology for over 40 years and has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the VA, and the American Diabetes Association for research in physiology, molecular biology, and the improvement of diabetes management. His clinical research interests include assessments of insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity, epidemiology, medical economics, evaluations of new diabetes drugs, improvements in health care delivery, and strategies to detect and manage diabetes early in its natural history.
Jacob Joseph is Chief of Cardiology and Chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee at VA Providence Healthcare System. His Translational Data Science research program focuses on Big Data approaches to precision prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. He received his medical degree from the University of Kerala Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years.