Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Investigator, Adult Endocrinologist, Joslin Diabetes Center
Director of Hypoglycemia Clinic, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dr. Patti is a physician-scientist endocrinologist, serving as Principal Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, Director of the Hypoglycemia Clinic, Co-Director of the Molecular Phenotyping Core, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Patti’s NIH-funded lab focuses on identification of molecular/epigenetic mechanisms by which nutritional exposures during early life increase adiposity, obesity and diabetes risk during adult life and in subsequent generations. Translational studies are focused on diabetes resolution and hypoglycemia after bariatric surgery. Dr. Patti received her MD from Jefferson Medical College magna cum laude, with internal medicine residency at University of Pittsburgh, and endocrinology fellowship at Harvard.