Dr. Kenneth Cusi received his medical degree and did his residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to Houston, Texas, USA, where he completed a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Cusi is an Associate Professor in the Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he has worked for the past 12 years. He is the Director of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinic at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Cusi has held grants from the NIH, Howard Hughes Institute and Veterans Administration. His work is aimed at understanding the mechanisms of insulin resistance and the associated abnormalities that cause cardiovascular disease, and a search for new pharmacological treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and steatohepatits (NASH).
He is a Board member of the National Lipid Association (Southwest Chapter) and of the Metabolism Section of the American Diabetes Association Annual Scientific 2007 Organizing Committee. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). He is a board member for the AACE Minority Health Affairs Committee and the Steering Committee for the Texas Chapter of AACE.
He has published in many peer-reviewed journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Reviews, The Endocrinologist, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the American Journal of Physiology (among others), and is a reviewer for several journals in the fields of endocrinology, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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