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Membership Criteria

The criteria for CMH membership:

  • Members may be from UTHSA, Texas Biomed, Southwest Research Institute, or UTSA.  Faculty may be on any track, research, tenure, service or clinical.
  • Members should have a interest in either
      • 1) elucidating the mechanisms underlying obesity, diabetes, NAFLD, kidney and cardiovascular disease, or
      • 2) developing and translating new therapeutics into clinical applications.
  • Members and prospective members should also be interested in seeking out collaborative extramural funding opportunities, as one of the Center’s primary goals is to pursue and acquire extramural funding from sources such as the NIH, DoD, and the VA to support its efforts in fundamental discovery.

To become a member, faculty and trainees need only to complete the membership application online or download the PDF and submit the completed form with your CV to cmh@uthscsa.edu.

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Founding Members

Blake Rasmussen, PhD
Director, Center for Metabolic Health
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Metabolic Health
Professor, Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Luke Norton, PhD
Co-Director, Laboratory Research, Center for Metabolic Health
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes and Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy

Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD
Co-Director, Clinical Research, Center for Metabolic Health
Chief and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Juli Bai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Cell Systems & Anatomy and Pharmacology

Jan M. Bruder, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Geoffrey D. Clarke, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiology and MRI Division Chief

Tiffany Cortes, MD
Assistant Professor/Clinical, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Patricia L. M. Dahia, MD, PhD
Tenured Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology

Lily Q. Dong, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy

Ralph A DeFronzo, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Diabetes Division
Deputy Director, Texas Diabetes Institute (TDI)

Goutam Ghosh-Choudhury, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology

David Gius, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Assistant Dean for Research
Associate Cancer Director of Translation Research

Glen A. Halff, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery
Dielmann Chair, UT Transplant Center

Xianlin Han, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine

Yuji Ikeno, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology

Kevin B. Koronowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Jane L. Lynch, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes

Masahiro Morita, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

Madesh Muniswamy, MS, PhD
Long Endowed Tenured Professor in Medicine
Division of Cardiology

Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes

Fred Poordad, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Division of Gastroenterology

Adam Salmon, PhD
Associate Director, Sam & Ann Barshop Institute
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

Monica Serra, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine

Kumar Sharma, MD
Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine

Yuguang Shi, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Xiaoli Sun, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Elena Volpi, MD, PhD
Director, Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine

Lu Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Mansour M. Zadeh, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Director, Center for Mucosal & Microbiome Biology

Mengwei Zang, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Structural Biology and Pathology and Molecurlar Medicine

Peng Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Shangang Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Members

Cara B. Gonzales, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Comprehensive Dentistry

Guanshi Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Division of Nephrology
Co-Director, San Antonio Program for Undergraduate Research in Renal Science (SPURRS)
Center for Precision Medicine

Sakie Katsumura, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Research
Department of Molecular Medicine

Fabian Rodas-Ochoa, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Transplant Hepatologist
Director of Transplant Services at Texas Liver Institute