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2025-2026 WE Leadership 
(Last updated 01.13.2026)

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@uchc.edu


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@BWH.HARVARD.EDU


Secretary-Treasurer


JINGJING KIPP, Ph.D.

DePaul University

Department of Biological Sciences

Chicago, IL

JKIPP@depaul.edu


Membership Committee


KATHERINE BACHMANN, MD (CHAIR)

Medical Director, Early Clinical Development, Cardiometabolic

Amgen

kneubecker@gmail.com


THERESA SUMY THOMAS

Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Endocrinology

Johannesburg, South Africa


NATALIE SHAW, MD

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Durham, NC


MABEL TOROBIO, MD

Neuroendocrine Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Awards Committee


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

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

kristen.vella@gmail.com



JENNIFER W. HILL, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology &

Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research

University of Toledo 

Toledo, OH



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



ALESSANDRA MANCINI, PhD

Scientist II

Ring Therapeutics

Cambridge, MA


LIZA DAS, MD, DM (Endocrinology)

Consultant Endocrinologist

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research 

Chandigarh, India 


SOUNDARA THANGARAJ

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI



FRANCESCA GALBIATI, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA


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


Nominating Committee


ANN E. TAYLOR, MD (CHAIR)

Retired

taylorae@live.com


MARY RHEE, M.D.

Emory University School of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids

Atlanta VA Medical Center

Atlanta, GA


RUBAN DHALIWAL, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, NY


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


DOLORES J. LAMB, Ph.D.

Urology and Molecular Cellular Biology

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

ANN E. KEARNS, MD, PhD

Consultant, Division of Endocrinology

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN


LaMONICA STEWART, Ph.D

Interim Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Research

Associate Professor

Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience & Pharmacology

Meharry Medical College

Nashville, TN


DANA ERICKSON

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN

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



GERALYN LAMBERT-MESSERLIAN, Ph.D

Professor 

Departments of Pathology and Lab Medicine and OB/Gyn

Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Providence RI


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@duke.edu


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


LAURA E. DICHTEL, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine, Neuroendocrine Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA


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


MONA MASHAYEKHI, MD, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Department of Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN


OLGA DEREVIANKO, MD

Department of Endocrinology 

Fomin Clinic

Moscow, Russia


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@yale.edu


ALLISON KIMBALL, MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

DIMPI DESAI, MD

Stanford University

Stanford, CA


FRANZISKA PLESSOW, MD

Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

RAJAE TALBI

University of Montreal

Montreal, QC, CANADA


KELLY LAUTER ROSZKO, MD, PHD

National Institute of Health

Bethesda, MD

Development Committee


MELANIE SCHORR HAINES, MD (CHAIR)

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

MSHAINES@MGH.HARVARD.EDU


DARYL J. SELEN. MD

Rhode Island Hospital

Riverside, RI



RONA STEPHANIE CARROLL, PhD MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine/Neurosurgery

Department of Endocrinology

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA


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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