Name

Affiliations

Major Research Interests

Gregory L. Braden, MD

• Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Chief, Division of Nephrology, Baystate Medical Center

• Neuroendocrine and metabolic regulation of energy balance

• Effects of obesity on renal function

Grace Makari-Judson, MD

• Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Medical Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baystate Medical Center

• Metabolic long-term consequences of breast cancer treatments, with focus on those associated with obesity

John Nicasio, DO

• Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Baystate Medical Center

• Diabetes treatment and complications

• Thyroid hormone effects on lipid metabolism

John R. Romanelli, MD

• Assistant Professor, Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery Program, Baystate Medical Center

• Neuroendocrine and metabolic regulation of energy balance

• Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery

Sabyasachi Sen, MD, PhD

• Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Baystate Medical Center

• PI, Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute

• Vascular and Langerhans islet cell biology

• Endothelial cell dysfunction in diabetes and pre-diabetes

J. Enrique Silva, MD

• Professor, Internal Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Adjunct Professor, Biology, UMass Amherst

• Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Baystate Medical Center

• Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, UMass Amherst

• Relationships between temperature homeostasis (thermogenesis) and energy balance

• Neuroendocrine and metabolic regulation of energy balance

• Metabolic effects of thyroid hormone

Howard A. Smithline, MD

• Assistant Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Emergency Department, Baystate Medical Center

• Metabolic abnormalities leading to myocardial failure

• ATP generation in the failing heart