Barbara Kahn

Vice Chair of Research Strategy in the Department of Medicine
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Education

1972 - B.A. Stanford University
1975 - M.S. University of California Berkeley, Health and Medical Sciences
1977 - M.D. Stanford University Medical School

Postdoctoral Training

1977-1980 - Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, University of California
Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
1980-1982 - Clinical Fellowship, General Internal Medicine, University of California
Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
1982-1985 - Endocrine Fellowship, Cellular Metabolism and Obesity Section
National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1985-1986 - Senior Staff Fellow, Experimental Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition Section
Molecular, Cellular and Nutritional Endocrinology Branch
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Licensure and Certification

1978 - California Medical License
1980 - Diplomate in Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
1985 - Diplomate in Endocrinology and Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine
1986 - Massachusetts Medical License

Academic Appointments

1986-1989 - Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1989-1994 - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1990-2000 - Chief, Diabetes Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
1994-2000 - Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2000-present - Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
2000-2011 - Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
2006-present - Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2006-present - George Richard Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
2007 - Interim Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2007 - Member, Harvard Medical School Council of Academic Deans
2010-2018 - Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2011 - present - vice Chair for Research Strategy
2018 - present - Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Hospital Appointments

1986-1996 - Associate in Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
1996-present - Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Clinical Consulting Positions

1980-1981 - Staff Medical Consultant, Behavioral Medicine Clinic, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
1981-1982 - Staff Medical Consultant, High Risk Obstetrics Clinic, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
1980-1982 - General Medicine Consultant for inpatient problems and surgical clearance, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
1987-1996 - Staff Diabetes Consultant, Diabetes and Pregnancy Cases, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

Major Administrative Responsibilities

1988-1992 - Director, Diabetes Clinic, Beth Israel Hospital
1990-2000 - Chief, Diabetes Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
1992-1996 - Director, Endocrine Grand Rounds/Molecular Endocrinology Series, Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School
1998-2001 - Associate Director, Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center - (NIH funded center involving Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard School of Public Health, New England Medical Center and Boston University)
2000-present - Director, Metabolic Physiology Core, Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, Boston, MA
2000-2011 - Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
2001-2004 - Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
2007 - Interim Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2007 - Interim Chair, Committee on Senior Appointments, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2011-present - Vice Chair for Research Strategy, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Major Committee Assignments - Medical School, Medical Center or Regional

1973-1975 - Medical School Admissions, Health and Medical Sciences, University of California Berkeley
1973-1974 - Medical School Curriculum, Health and Medical Sciences, University of California Berkeley
1980-1981 - Nursing Physician Relations, University of California Davis Medical Center
1989-1992 - Laboratory Safety Committee, Beth Israel Hospital
1990-2000 - Scientific Advisory Board, Clinical Research Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
1992-1998 - Co-Chair, Diabetes Education Advisory Board, Beth Israel Hospital
1998 - Member, Task Force on Disease Management, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Diabetes Center Joint Venture
1998 - Member, Implementation Committee, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Diabetes Center Joint Venture
1998-2004 - Executive Committee, Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center - NIH funded
2000-present - Executive Committee, Boston Area Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (DERC) - NIH funded
2001-2003 - Search Committee, Director of Clinical Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
2001-2004 - Promotions, Reappointments and Appointments Committee, Harvard Medical School
2002-2003 - Search Committee, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Harvard School of Public Health
2002-present - Promotions Committee, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2004-2005 - Search Committee, Chief Medical Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center
2004-present - Member, Committee on Senior Appointments (COSA), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2007 Chair of COSA)
2006-2007 - Search Committee, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital
2006-2009 - Subcommittee of Professors, Harvard Medical School
2007 - Search Committee, Chief Academic Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2009-present - Institutional (BIDMC) Liason, Collaboration Coordinating Committee, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2009-2011 - Co-Chair, Junior Faculty Search Committee, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2009-2011 - Search Committee, Neuroscientist Faculty Recruitment, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess
2011-2012 - Member, Research Vision and Strategy Committee, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2011-present - Selection Committee for Associate Members, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2012-present - Member, Department of Medicine Academic Mission and Research Development Committee, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2013-2014 - Broadnext10 Scientific Frontier – Metabolism Subgroup, Strategic Planning Committee for the next 10 years of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2013-present - Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Medicine Foundation Inc. Board, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2016-present - Member, Department of Medicine Committee on the Advancement of Women, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2018-present - Search Committee, Director of Cardiovascular Life Sciences Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Major Committees and Advisory Boards - National and International

1992-1994 - American Diabetes Association, Scientific Sessions Committee
1993-present - International Symposium on Insulin Receptors and Insulin Action, Scientific Advisory Committee
1994 - National Diabetes Advisory Board, consultant on basic biomedical research related to diabetes
1997 - Chairperson, Pharmacologic Approaches to Metabolic Control Subcommittee NIH Conference on Diabetes Mellitus: Challenges and Opportunities
1997-1999 - American Diabetes Association Research Policy Committee
1998-2008 - Scientific Advisory Board, CEPTYR, Inc., Seattle, WA
1999-2002 - American Diabetes Association Scientific and Medical Meetings Oversight Committee (Chairperson 2000-2002)
1999-2003 - Scientific Advisory Board, Xcellsyz, London, England
2000-2002 - American Diabetes Association Professional Section Steering Committee
2000-2004 - Scientific Advisory Board, University of Colorado NIH-funded Center for Nutrition Research, Denver, CO
2001 - NHLBI/NIH Working Group on the Pathophysiology of Obesity-Associated Cardiovascular Disease
2001-2004 - Committee on Diabetes, American Heart Association
2001-2009 - Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Metabolic Disease Advisory Board, Mannheim, Germany
2002 - Steering committee for reorganization of NIH Study Sections on Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive Endocrinology
2002-2003 - Steering Committee, Endocrine Society Scientific Sessions
2002-2003 - Publications Committee, American Diabetes Association
2002-2004 - Committee on Obesity, American Heart Association
2003-2004 - Board of Directors, American Diabetes Association
2003-2004 - President, Interurban Clinical Club
2004-2007 - Advisory Board for Metabolic Disease Program, University of Kobe, Japan
2005-2007 - Scientific Advisory Board, Diabetes Gene Discovery Group (DGDG), Montreal, Canada
2006-2009 - Scientific Advisory Board, Wyeth Pharmaceutical Company, Cambridge, MA
2008-2010 - Scientific Advisory Board, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA.
2008-2010 - NIH Diabetes Research Strategic Planning Committee, Obesity sub-group
2008-2010 - External Scientific Advisor, Taskforce for Obesity Research at Southwestern (TORS), NIH Roadmap Consortium, University of Texas Southwestern
2009-2013 - Scientific Advisory Board, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, MA
2010-2011 - American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Integrated Physiology/Obesity Subcommittee
2012-2013 - American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Insulin Signaling/Insulin Action Subcommittee
2012-2016 - Endocrine Laureate Awards Committee, Endocrine Society, Bethesda, MD
2013-present - American Diabetes Association Program for Roadmap Grants
2013-present - Mentor Advisory Panel, American Diabetes Association, Pathway to Stop Diabetes. Inaugural program to find, fund and stimulate the development of the next generation of diabetes researchers.
2018-present - American Diabetes Association Medicine, Science & Health Care Awards Committee
2018-present - NIH/NIDDK National Advisory Council
2019-present - Scientific Advisory Board, Harrington Discovery Institute

Symposium Organization

2000 - Co-Chairperson, New York Academy of Sciences symposium "PKB/Akt - a gatekeeper for metabolism and apoptosis"
2001 - Co-Chairperson, Keystone symposium - "Obesity and the regulation of energy homeostasis"
2001-2003 - Co-Chair (elected), FASEB conference on Glucose Transporter Biology
2002-2003 - Chair, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology symposium on "Novel Signaling Pathways involved in Leptin Action and CNS Regulation of Energy Balance"
2002-2004 - Program Committee, AMP Kinase 3rd International Symposium, Australia, 2004
2003-2005 - Chair (elected), FASEB conference on Glucose Transporter Biology
2010-2012 - Co-Chair, FASEB conference on AMPK: Novel Biological Actions & Roles in Diseases
2014-2015 - Co-Chair, Keystone Symposium on Diabetes, Kyoto, Japan
2015- Organizer and Invited Speaker, Key Symposium “Insulin Resistance in Common Disease”. Sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Internal Medicine. Boston, MA

Memberships in Professional Societies

1978-1986 - American College of Physicians
1980-1984 - American Association of Diabetes Educators, Psychosocial Committee
1981-1987 - Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine
1981-present - American Diabetes Association, Professional Section Member
1987-present - American Federation for Medical Research
1989-present - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1990-present American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected to Fellow in 2006)
1994-present - American Society for Clinical Investigation
1994-2001 - Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
1995-1998 - European Association for the Study of Diabetes
1995-present - Endocrine Society
1998-2000 - North American Association for the Study of Obesity
2001-present - Association of American Physicians
2005-present - Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
2005-present - Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. SHOULD READ: 2005-present National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences) (elected)
2009-2010 - American Society for Microbiology
2012-present Association of Specialty Professors (ASP)
2017-present National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (elected)

Editorial Boards

1991-1994 - Diabetes
1993-1997 - American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism
1995-1997 - Endocrinology
1995-1997 - Diabetologia - Advisory Board member
2001-2004 - American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism
2002-2007 - Journal of Biological Chemistry
2005-2010 - Endocrine Reviews - Associate Editor
2005-present - Cell Metabolism
2008-2011 - Science, Board of Screening Editors
2009-present - EMBO Molecular Medicine
2018-present - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Grant Review Boards

1989-2005 - Ad hoc reviewer, Veteran's Administration Research and Merit Grants
1990-1995 - Grant Reviewer, University of Michigan Diabetes Center
1991-1995 - Grant Reviewer, Washington University Diabetes Center
1995 - Ad hoc Reviewer, Metabolism Study Section, NIH
1995-1997 - NIH Reviewer Reserve, Metabolism Study Section
1996-1997 - Member, NIH Special Study Sections
1996-1998 - Member, American Diabetes Association Research Grant Review Board
1996-2009 - Reviewer, British Diabetes Association Research Grants
1997-2001 - Member, NIH Metabolism Study Section
1999-2005 - Grant Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation
1999 - Ad hoc Reviewer, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Research Grants
2001-present - Grant Reviewer, The Welcome Trust, London
2002 - Grant Reviewer, French Ministry of Research
2005-2009 - Grant Reviewer, The Medical Foundation/Charles A. King Trust Fellowship Program
2007 - Ad hoc Member, Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes Study Section (IPOD), NIDDK/NIH
2013-present - Grant Reviewer and Mentor Advisory Group, American Diabetes Association, Pathway to Stop Diabetes Program

Awards and Honors

1980 - Research Award, The Diabetes Association of Sacramento
1980 - Biodynamics/Boehringer Manneheim Research Award
1981 - Faculty Research Award, University of California Davis Medical School
1981 - Research Award, Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical School
1986-1991 - Physician-Scientist Award, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
1991-1993 - Capps Scholar in Diabetes, Harvard Medical School
1991 - Banting and Best Lecturer, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto
1992 - Award for "Outstanding International Contributions to Research in Diabetes Mellitus" - American Diabetes Association, Missouri Affiliate
1993 - Max Miller Memorial Lecture, American Federation for Clinical Research, Midwest Metabolism Section
1994 - Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
1995 - Eli Lilly Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement, American Diabetes Association
1999 - Elected to the Interurban Clinical Club, founded by Sir William Osler
2000 - Visiting Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 - Honorary Masters Degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2001 - Elected to the Association of American Physicians
2003 - Wolfe Family Endowed Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2003 - Mosenthal Award, American Diabetes Association Eastern Region, New York
2005 - Nelson Goldberg Lecture in Signal Transduction and Metabolism, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005 - Catherine Tuck Memorial Lecture, Columbia University Medical School, New York, NY
2005 - Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington, DC
2005 - The 10th Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
2005 - Charles H. Best Award, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
2005 - Jacobaeus Prize, Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden
2006 - National Institutes of Health Merit Award
2006 - Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2006 - George Richards Minot Endowed Chair in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
2006 - Research chosen for presentation at NIH National Advisory Council, Bethesda, MD
2007 - Research discoveries featured in the publication: "NIDDK: Recent Advances and Emerging Opportunities"
2007 - Harold Rifkin Award and Lectureship, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
2008 - Dodge Lectureship, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 - Roger Guillemin Nobel Lecturer, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
2008 - Top Doctor in Endocrinology, Castle Connolly Medical LTD, reported in Boston Magazine
2009 - Inaugural Willard J. and Priscilla F. Visek Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
2010 - Beth Zaruby Lectureship at the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2010 - Gerald Aurbach Award for outstanding contributions to research in Endocrinology. Awarded at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA in June, 2010.
2010 - Top Doctor in Endocrinology, Castle Connolly Medical LTD, reported in Boston Magazine
2010-2011 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2011 - 15th Louis Izenstein Lectureship, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA
2013 - Kern Lectureship Award, presented at the Kern Lipid Conference “Molecular Mechanisms and Pathophysiology of Lipid Storage”, Vail, CO
2013 - 11th Albert Lehninger Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
2016 - Journal of Lipid Research Lectureship Award. Presented at the Keystone meeting on “New Therapeutics for Diabetes and Obesity”, La Jolla, CA
2016 - Thorndike Lecture, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
2016 - Banting Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the American Diabetes Association. Presented at the American Diabetes Association 76th Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, LA
2016 - 23rd Dewitt Goodman Lectureship, Columbia University Medical School, NY, NY
2017 - Charles Hollenberg Lectureship, Banting and Best Diabetes Center, Toronto, Canada
2017 - Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2017 - John Baxter Memorial Lecture, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
2018 - Nancy and Ann Hatfield Alumnae Award for outstanding contributions to the community through dedication to the highest ideas, The Barstow School, Kansas City, MO.
2018 - Selected as the recipient of the 2019 FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Excellence in Science Award

Visiting Professorships

2000 - Visiting Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 - Pfizer Visiting Professor, Pacific Northwest Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2002 - Burroughs Welcome Fund and the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology Visiting Professor in the Basic Medical Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Durham, NC
2007 - Harold Rifkin Visiting Professorship, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
2007 - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research Visiting Professor in Diabetes and Metabolism at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
2007 - Pfizer Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
2007 - Max Wintrobe Lectureship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2008 - Dodge Lectureship Series, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri
2011 - Guest Lecturer and Visiting Professor for the 15th Louise Izenstein Lectureship, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

Publications

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