She is also Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She completed a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System/University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a postgraduate research fellowship in diabetes at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex. Her research interests include insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome, and metabolic effects of bariatric surgery. She is a recipient of a research grant from the American Diabetes Association and the National Institute of Health, and one of the overseeing physicians on the recent STAMPEDE II study which looked at the effect of bariatric surgery in curbing type 2 diabetes.