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Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, MD, PhD
Title: Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University  Dr. Ismail-Beigi is a professor of Medicine and Endocrinology and for the past 14 years has served as the chief of Endocrinology at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Cleveland VA. He completed his BA at Berea College in KY in 1962 and his MD degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1966. Following internship and residency on the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins, he spend three years as a fellow and graduate student at University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley where he received a PhD in Biophysics in 1972. After a year of senior residency at Johns Hopkins, he returned to his native Iran where he served as chairman of medicine at Pahlavi University (now Shiraz University) till 1982. Following the revolution in Iran in 1979, Dr. Ismail-Beigi immigrated to the US in 1984 and was Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. In 1993 he was recruited to Case Western Reserve University. He served as chief of Endocrinology at Case from 1993 to 2007. While continuing as full-time Professor at Case, he has recently joined St. Vincent Charity Hospital as the Medical Director of its Joslin Diabetes Clinic.His interests are in teaching, basic research in thyroid hormone, glucose transport, and insulin action, and in clinical diabetes research. He is the Principle Investigator of the ACCORD trial for the Ohio/Michigan Network. Dr. Ismail-Beigi is also the diabetologist PI of another NIH-funded diabetes trial at University Hospitals of Cleveland (the BARI2D Trial) which is complementary to the ACCORD trial. He has authored more than 100 basic and clinical scientific papers.
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