Biography

Nancy Bohannon, MD, FACP, FACE, is director of clinical research in the Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program at Saint Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco, California. Dr Bohannon earned her medical degree from the University of California at Davis. Following her residency training in internal medicine at the Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, she completed a clinical and research fellowship at the San Francisco Diabetes Association and the Dorothy Frank Research Fellowship of San Francisco Diabetes Association at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr Bohannon is active in both research and clinical projects. She has been in solo private practice of diabetes/endocrinology in San Francisco for 35 years. Her main interests include lipid disorders, components of the metabolic syndrome, and diabetes. She is currently president of the Medical Society of the United States and Mexico. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology and a member of the American Medical Association, the Professional Section of both the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association, the Northern California Professional Diabetes Association, the American Federation for Clinical Research, and the Atherosclerosis Council. Dr Bohannon also serves on many editorial and review boards. She is a reviewer for Patient Care, Diabetes Care, and Endocrine Practice, an editorial review panel member for Postgraduate Medicine, an editorial board member for Primary Care Reports: The Practical Journal for Family Physicians, and for Insulin. Dr Bohannon has published more than 75 research articles or abstracts in journals that include the Journal of the American Medical Association, Diabetes Care, Postgraduate Medicine, Clinical Therapeutics, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, and others. She lectures extensively and internationally, most recently in India, Mexico, and Dubai in 2011.

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