Rheumatology and Endocrinology

Faculty

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  Stephen Winters, MD (Learn More)
  Emeritus Professor and Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, University of Louisville Clinical Professor of Clinical Medicine, Florida State University
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  Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH (Learn More)
  Dr. Ahmad is the Chief of Heart Failure at Yale Cardiology. With focus on the care of patients with end stage heart failure, left ventricular assist devices, and heart transplants. His Internal Medicine training was at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. During that time, he received an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. He did his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure at Duke University Medical Center along with a two year research fellowship at DCRI. He partners with several investigators at Yale to run pragmatic clinical trials across the health system that are aimed at answering foundational questions about the practice of heart failure.
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  Mary Chester Wasko (Learn More)
  Dr. Mary Chester M. Wasko is Emeritus Professor at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She retired in 2022 after 32 years of practice as fulltime faculty, first at the University of Pittsburgh, then AHN. She has taught trainees at all levels throughout her career. While she was Division Director at AHN, Dr Wasko oversaw the successful initiation of a fellowship training program to help address the national shortage of rheumatologists. As a clinician scientist, she has had external funding from the NIH, American Heart Association and the Arthritis Foundation to study the risk factors of cardiovascular disease in rheumatoid arthritis. She directed numerous clinical trials evaluating new biologic agents for the treatment of RA. Currently she is preparing to begin parttime rheumatology work at a Federally Qualified Health Center in North Carolina near her hometown. She and her husband will be moving there from Pittsburgh in early 2024.
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  Yael Mauer, MD (Learn More)
  Dr. Yael Mauer, MD, MPH, FACP, DABOM, is a Staff Physician in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Cleveland Clinic, with expertise in the medical management of metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and MASLD/MASH. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), and Chair-elect of the Clinical Practice Committee at the Obesity Society (Chair for 2026). Dr. Mauer frequently lectures on the management of metabolic diseases at Cleveland Clinic and across the United States.