Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Senior Investigator and Head of Section of Integrative Physiology, Joslin Diabetes Center
C. Ronald Kahn is a world-recognized expert in diabetes and obesity, and preeminent investigator in the areas of insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in diabetes and metabolic disease. Dr. Kahn is Chief Academic Officer and Head of the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahn served as Research Director of Joslin from 1981 to 2000 and President from 2000 through 2007. Dr. Kahn has received more than 70 awards and honors, including the Wolf Prize in Medicine, Kober Medal of the AAP and the highest honors of the American Diabetes Association, U.S. and British Endocrine Societies, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He has been elected to the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Medicine. He has authored more than 700 original publications and 200 reviews and chapters.