Faculty

Neil Aronin, MD
Academic Chief, Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Neuroendocrinology, Adrenal Disease, Genetic Endocrinopathies, General Endocrine Disease
Research Focus: Inherited Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g., Huntington’s disease), RNA oligonucleotide therapeutics in neurodegenerative disease, Genomic therapies in brain disease, Digital Medicine, genetics
Educational Focus: Medical students (Endocrine disease), Graduate School students (novel therapeutics in brain disease), medical residents, Endocrine fellows

Samir Malkani, MD
Clinical Chief, Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and complications
Research Focus: Diabetes and population health, diabetes technology
Educational Focus: Director, Flexible Clinical Experience Course for third-year medical students, specialty advisor for Kelley House

Madona Azar, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Diabetes in pregnancy, cardiovascular and metabolic risk management in diabetes, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Research Focus: Cardiovascular and metabolic risk management in diabetes

Christopher Coyne, MD
Fellowship Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Management of Thyroid Cancer, Nodular Thyroid Disease
Research Focus: Molecular testing in the management of Thyroid Disease
Educational Focus: Fellowship program director

Julie R. Chan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Transplant diabetes
Research Focus: Post-transplant diabetes
Educational Focus: Vascular disease patients, collaboration with the limb preservation center

Leslie J. Domalik, MD
Medical Director of Inpatient Diabetes Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Hospital management of Diabetes
Educational Focus: Education of fellows and residents

Richard A. Haas, MD, FACE
Director of Gestational Diabetes, Co-Director of Diabetes Coach Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Gestational Diabetes, lipid disorders

Eyad Hamoudeh, MD
Ambulatory Physician Leader for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Thyroid disorders, general endocrinology
Research Focus: Thyroid Cancer

David M. Harlan, MD
William and Doris Krupp Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, UMass Chan Diabetes Center of Excellence, Director, Breakthrough T1D New England Center of Excellence
Clinical Focus: Type 1 diabetes, complicated/difficult to control type 2 diabetes
Research Focus: Genetically modifying stem-cell-derived pancreatic islets as a curative therapy for T1D, cellular and molecular studies to elucidate type 1 diabetes pathogenesis
Educational Focus: Member of MD, PhD, admissions committee, mentor for MD and PhD students in Kelley House, faculty sponsor for UMass Chan Operational Enrichment Electives in Diabetes

Andrea Kassai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Diabetes, endocrine conditions
Research Focus: Lipodystrophy
Educational Focus: Working with medical students, residents, and fellows in clinic, outpatient, and inpatient settings, faculty advisor for students in Blackstone House

John P. Mordes, MD
Professor Emeritus
Clinical Focus: Gestational Diabetes, lipid disorders
Research Focus: Type 1 diabetes genetics, improving ICU diabetes care with digital technology and artificial intelligence
Educational Focus: Diabetes management in primary care and geriatrics, approach to incidentalomas in general internal medicine, Hypothyroidism

Matthew A. Niemi, MD
Assistant Professor
Clinical Focus: Diabetes Renal Disease
Research Focus: Maximizing implementation of novel, evidence-based treatments
Educational Focus: Preserving kidney function among diabetic individuals, to reduce the risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular outcomes

Mark O'Connor, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Diabetes Mellitus, thyroid disorders
Research Focus: Digital Medicine, genetics
Educational Focus: Co-Director of Endocrine and Reproductive Systems Course, Internal Medicine Residency Research Track core faculty

Amin Sabet, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Metabolic weight, adrenal disease, calcium disorders, endocrine hyperparathyroidism

Prateek Shukla, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Diabetes technology
Research Focus: Improving diabetes care systems

Pavani Srimatkandada, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Diabetes (types 1 & 2), Addison's Disease, adrenal disease, hyperparathyroidism, thyroid related diseases
Gabriela Szabo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Osteoporosis (Calcium, Parathyroid), Thyroid diseases, thyroid nodules, and thyroid FNA, Pituitary and adrenal diseases

Michael J. Thompson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Management of diabetes and complications
Research Focus: Clinical trials and new diabetes treatments
Mira Sofia Torres MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Focus: Thyroid disorders, Neuroendocrinology, Adrenal Disease, Metabolic Bone Disease
Educational Focus: Fellows, residents, medical students, Fellowship core faculty and clinical competency committee member, Specialty advisor for Burncoat, Tatnuck, and Grafton Hill house, UMass Chan