Gerald I. Shulman, MD, Ph.D.

George R. Cowgill Profesor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Co-Director, Yale Diabetes Research Center

Director, Yale Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center

Email: gerald.shulman@yale.edu | Phone: +1 203-785-5447
Dr. Shulman is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Co-Director of the Yale Diabetes Research Center. Dr. Shulman completed his undergraduate studies in biophysics at the University of Michigan, and he received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University. Following internship and residency training at Duke University Medical Center, he did an endocrinology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and pursued additional postdoctoral work in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He was subsequently recruited back to Yale and has remained there ever since. Dr. Shulman has pioneered the use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy to non-invasively examine intracellular glucose and fat metabolism in humans that have led to several paradigm shifts in our understanding of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Shulman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.