Diabetes expert Rexford Ahima named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Rexford Ahima has been named the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes at Johns Hopkins in the schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. He will serve as director of the School of Medicine's Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and as leader of the Diabetes Initiative.

He joins Johns Hopkins from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently a professor of medicine, director of the Obesity Unit at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Penn Diabetes Research Center's Mouse Phenotyping, Physiology and Metabolism Core.

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