Biography

Dr. Cusi is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at The University of Florida at Gainesville, and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Gainesville, FL (2011-present). He completed his early medical training in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and fellowship in endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. His earlier career was at the University of San Antonio Health Science Center, Texas (1992-2011) was on the role of defects in insulin secretion and of insulin resistance in the development of T2DM. His later work has focused on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as a common complication of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM), with a need to screen people as done for diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy or cardiovascular disease. Dr. Cusi has published more than 220 peer-reviewed manuscripts centering on the mechanisms causing T2DM, as well as NAFLD in obesity and diabetes, and contributed to recent guidelines for the management of NAFLD (AASLD 2012 & 2018, ALEH 2020, AGA 2021, AACE 2022). His basic and clinical research programs at the University of Florida include funding from the National Institute of Health and from industry on the mechanisms leading to NAFLD and search for new treatments. He received from The University of Florida the prestigious Exemplary Teacher Award, as well as the Clinical Research Award for Outstanding Achievement, Research Discovery, and Productivity. In 2020, he received the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award.

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