Metabolic Syndrome
and Related Disorders

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Ishwarlal (Kenny) Jialal, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism)
Robert E. Stowell Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology
Director of the Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research, Director, Special Chemistry and Toxicology
Davis Medical Center, Sacramento and Staff Endocrinologist
Sacramento VA Medical Center, CA
Sacramento, CA
Phone: (916) 734-6592
Fax: (916) 734-6593
ishwarlal.jialal@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Associate Editors

Nicola Abate, MD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, TX
niabate@utmb.edu

Mandeep Bajaj, MD, FRCP 
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
mandeepbajaj@hotmail.com

Editorial Board

Richard C. Adler, MD
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN

Luis Afonso MD
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Abayomi O. Akanji, MD, PhD
Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Mohamed Ali, MD
University of California, Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA

Joshua I. Barzilay, MD
Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, Atlanta

Gerald S. Berenson, MD
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Lars Berglund, MD PhD
University of California
Davis, CA

Bharat Bhushan, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Christopher L. Bowlus, MD
University of California, Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA

Andrew A. Bremer, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN 

Manisha Chandalia, MBBS, MD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, TX

Ajay Chaudhuri, MBBS 
State University of New York at Buffalo

Ada Cuevas, MD, MSc
Clinica Las Condes
Santiago, Chile

Jean-Pierre Després, PhD
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
 Québec, Canada

Sridevi Devaraj, PhD, DABCC, FACB 
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX

Cyrus Desouza, MBBS FACE
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Sandeep Dhindsa, MD
State University of New York at Buffalo

Alessandro Doria, MD, PhD, MPH
Harvard Medical School, Boston 

P. Barton Duell, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR

Robert H. Eckel, MD
University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO

Katherine Esposito, MD, PhD
University of Naples SUN
Naples, Italy

Gian Paolo Fadini, MD
University of Padova Medical School
Padova, Italy

Eric S. Freedland, MD
Boston, MA

Rajesh Garg, MD
Harvard Medical School, Boston

W. Timothy Garvey, MD 
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham VA Medical Center
Birmingham, AL  

Dario Giugliano, MD, PhD
University of Naples SUN
Naples, Italy

Scott Grundy, MD
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Matthew K. Ito, PharmD, FCCP, CLS, FNLA
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR  

Sushil K. Jain, PhD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, LA 

Lois Jovanovic, MD
University of California, Santa Barbara

Sangeeta Kashyap, MD
Cleveland Clinic

Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD, FACSM
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Isabelle Lemieux, PhD
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
Québec, Canada

Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  
New York, NY

Peter Libby, MD
Harvard Medical School, Boston

J. Antonio G. López, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA
Saint Alphonus Regional Medical Center
Boise, ID  

Yuji Matsuzawa, MD, PhD
Osaka University
Osaka, Japan

Valentina Medici, MD
University of California
Davis, CA 

Jason A. Mendoza, MD, MPH
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Sunder Mudaliar, MD, FRCP (Edin), FACP, FACE
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Mulchand Patel, PhD
State University of New York at Buffalo

Frederick J. Raal, PhD, FRCP, FRCPC, FCP (SA)
    MMed (Wits)
Johannesburg Hospital
Johannesburg, South Africa

Stephen S. Rich, PhD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Saul Schaefer, MD
University of California
Davis, CA

Dawn C. Schwenke, PhD
Phoenix VA Health Care System
Phoenix, AZ
College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ

David Siegel, MD, MPH
VA Northern California Health Care System
University of California, Davis Medical School
Sacramento, CA

Lori J. Sokoll, PhD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, MD

Norbert Stefan, MD
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

Francene Steinberg, PhD, RD
University of California
Davis, CA

Anne E. Sumner, MD, FAHA, FACP
NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda

Arthur Swislocki, MD
VA Northern California Health Care System
University of California, Davis Medical School
Sacramento, CA

Giovanni Targher, MD
University of Verona Medical School
Verona, Italy

Karla A. Temple, PhD, RD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

John Tooke, MA, BM, BCh, DM, Dsc (Oxon), FRCP
Peninsula Medical School
Plymouth, UK

Natalie J. Torok, MD
University of California
Sacramento, CA
 
Vincenzo Trischitta, MD
Sapienza University
Rome, Italy

Gloria L. Vega, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Sonia Vega-López, PhD
Arizona State University
Mesa, AZ

Naval K. Vikram, MD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India

Karol E. Watson, MD, PhD
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 

William E. Winter, MD
University of Florida
Gainesville, Fl

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA  
University of California-Irvine

Hannele Yki-Jarvinen, MD, FRCP
University of Helsinki, Finland

Editorial Assistant

Romini Jialal
rominij@gmail.com