E. Dale Abel is the William S. Adams Distinguished Professor and Chair Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health. He completed post-graduate training at Oxford, Northwestern and Harvard Universities. Dr. Abel’s research focuses on mitochondrial mechanisms for complications of cardiometabolic disorders. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed publications. He is an elected member of the American Association of Physicians (AAP), the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He is past President of the Endocrine Society and the Association of Professors of Medicine.