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2025-2026 WE Leadership (Last updated 10.02.2025)

Welcoming new board members. Please email us at WIE@wildapricot.org to contact any of our officers or committees! 

President


FARYAL MIRZA, MD

Professor of Medicine

Clinical Director

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

UConn Health and UConn Musculoskeletal Institute

Farmington, CT

fmirza at uchc.edu























MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE



KATHERINE BACHMANN, MD (CHAIR)

Medical Director, Early Clinical Development, Cardiometabolic

Amgen

kneubecker at gmail.com




NATALIE SHAW, MD

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Durham, NC




AWARDS COMMITTEE



KRISTEN VELLA, PhD (CHAIR)
Assistant Professor of Metabolism in Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

krv2005 at med.cornell.edu



MARIA INES PEREZ MILLAN, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology Department

Faculty of Exact and Natural Science

University of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina


LIZA DAS, MD, DM (Endocrinology)

Consultant Endocrinologist

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research 

Chandigarh, India 



FRANCESCA GALBIATI, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA








NOMINATING COMMITTEE


ANN E. TAYLOR, MD (CHAIR)

Retired

taylorae at live.com




RUBAN DHALIWAL, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, NY



DOLORES J. LAMB, Ph.D.

Urology and Molecular Cellular Biology

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX



LaMONICA STEWART, Ph.D

Interim Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Research

Associate Professor

Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience & Pharmacology

Meharry Medical College

Nashville, TN








COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE


FREDERIQUE RUF ZAMOJSKI, Ph.D (CHAIR)

Associate Professor (acting)

Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology,

Diabetes, and Metabolism

Cedars-Sinai

Los Angeles, CA

frederique.ruf-zamojski at cshs.org



YAN EMILY YUAN, M.D. MSc.

Instructor in Medicine, Associate Physician

Harvard Medical School

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA





MENTORING COMMITTEE


GAYATHRI DEVI, PhD (CHAIR)

Professor, Department of Surgery

Professor, Department of Pathology

Program Director, Duke Inflammatory Breast Cancer Consortium

Duke Cancer Institute

Durham, NC

gayathri.devi at duke.edu



LAURA E. DICHTEL, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine, Neuroendocrine Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA



MONA MASHAYEKHI, MD, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Department of Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN






PROGRAM COMMITTEE


SHANNON WHIRLEDGE, PHD, MSC (CHAIR)

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics,

Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

shannon.whirledge at yale.edu



DIMPI DESAI, MD

Stanford University

Stanford, CA








RAJAE TALBI

University of Montreal

Montreal, QC, CANADA









DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE


MELANIE SCHORR HAINES, MD (CHAIR)

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

MSHAINES at MGH.HARVARD.EDU




RONA STEPHANIE CARROLL, PhD MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine/Neurosurgery

Department of Endocrinology

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA









Past President


ELLEN SEELY, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director of Clinical Research

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

ESEELY at BWH.HARVARD.EDU


Secretary-Treasurer


JINGJING KIPP, Ph.D. (2019-2024)

DePaul University

Department of Biological Sciences

Chicago, IL

JKIPP at depaul.edu















THERESA SUMY THOMAS

Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Endocrinology

Johannesburg, South Africa



MABEL TOROBIO, MD

Neuroendocrine Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA






JENNIFER W. HILL, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology &

Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research

University of Toledo 

Toledo, OH



ALESSANDRA MANCINI, PhD

Scientist II

Ring Therapeutics

Cambridge, MA


SOUNDARA THANGARAJ

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI


EMILY N. HILZ

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX



SAHAR KHALID ALHARTHI

Adult Endocrinology Fellow

King Saud University

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia



NATALIA CHAMORRO-PAREJA, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA






MARY RHEE, M.D.

Emory University School of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids

Atlanta VA Medical Center

Atlanta, GA



FARYAL MIRZA, M.D., F.A.C.E., F.C.P.S., F.A.C.P.

Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UConn Health and UConn Musculoskeletal Institute

Farmington, CT




ANN E. KEARNS, MD, PhD

Consultant, Division of Endocrinology

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN



DANA ERICKSON

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN









GERALYN LAMBERT-MESSERLIAN, Ph.D

Professor 

Departments of Pathology and Lab Medicine and OB/Gyn

Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Providence RI






















SARAH NADEEM, MD, FACE

Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine & Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology

Aga Khan University

Karachi, Pakistan



ANH TRAN, Ph.D, MPH

Associate Professor

Vice Chief of Education

Division of Community Health

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Duke University

Durham, NC



OLGA DEREVIANKO, MD

Department of Endocrinology 

Fomin Clinic

Moscow, Russia







ALLISON KIMBALL, MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA




FRANZISKA PLESSOW, MD

Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA



KELLY LAUTER ROSZKO, MD, PHD

National Institute of Health

Bethesda, MD








DARYL J. SELEN. MD

Rhode Island Hospital

Riverside, RI




MOLLIE O'CONNOR, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor,  Department of Endocrinology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine 

New York, NY



CHERIE L. BUTTS, PhD

Biogen Inc


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