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Board of Directors
The Worldwide CardioDiabetes Board of Directors is comprised of a group of world-renowned experts in the fields of diabetes and cardiology who together shape the foundation’s educational efforts. They lend their expertise and knowledge, and help identify educational gaps and needs in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region so that resources are targeted appropriately.
Co-Chairs
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Richard Nesto, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Andrew Boulton, MD
University of Manchester
Manchester, England, UK
Members
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George Bakris, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Juliana Chan, MD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China
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Christie Ballantyne, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA
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Efraín Gaxiola, MD
Centro Especializado en Terapia Endovascular de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
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Lawrence A. Leiter, MD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Jorge Plutzky, MD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Naveed Sattar, MD
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Junior Member/Editorial Contributor
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Chanchal Chandramouli, BSc (Hons), MBA, MAMS, PhD
Research Fellow,
National Heart Centre Singapore
Assistant Professor,
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore