Foreign Faculty
Dr. Adi Mehta is a graduate of University of Western Ontario and completed his Endocrinology fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After working at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg as an Assistant and subsequently Associate Professor, he moved to the USA and joined the faculty at the Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Endocrinology.
He is a member of numerous societies in both the USA and Canada and is listed in "Best Doctors in America: 2003-2004 and 2005-2006. He was awarded the Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award for the year 2009 by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
His extensive research career includes over 160 scientific presentations and over 200 publications mostly in peer-reviewed journals. His scientific interests include studies in diabetes mellitus, thyroid diseases and reproductive physiology and medicine. He is a well-traveled lecturer, and among his numerous accomplishments is his ability to teach at all levels including clinical, basic science and research.
Dr. Betul Hatipoglu, MD, is a Staff member in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Cleveland Clinic's main campus, having accepted that appointment in 2008. Prior to that appointment, she was an assistant professor of medicine and medical director for pancreas and islet cell transplant program at the University of Illinois at Chicago for nearly eight years.
Her clinical interests include diabetes, thyroid disease in woman and pituitary and adrenal disorders and alternative medicine.
Dr. Hatipoglu received her medical degree from Istanbul Medical School. She completed an internal medicine residency and chief residency at Michael Reese-University of Illinois at Chicago and an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For four consecutive year 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 she received the Excellence in teaching award from University of Illinois at Chicago department of medicine. Dr. Hatipoglu speaks three languages -- English, Turkish and French -- and is board-certified in internal medicine as well as endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. She is a member of the Endocrine Society, American Diabetes Association, American College of Medicine and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
Dr. Robert S. Zimmerman received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland and completed his fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Zimmerman is the Vice Chairman Endocrinology Cleveland Clinic and Director of the Diabetes Center in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and is co-chairman of the Endocrinology Board Review Course Committee for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. He is currently on the CME committee of the Endocrine Society. He previously served as a member of the Meeting Steering Committee of the Endocrine Society for six years, Governmental Affairs Committee for three years, and the Clinical Affairs Committee for six years.
He is on the Board of the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland. Dr. Zimmerman's research interests include cardiac effects of diabetes therapy, stress and hypertension, thyroid disease and metabolic abnormalities. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts. Dr. Zimmerman is a fellow of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and a member of the American Diabetes Association and Endocrine Society.
Dr. Sethu Reddy is a graduate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and completed fellowships in clinical endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Toronto. He was then a research fellow in cellular and molecular physiology at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
He has written or co-authored more than 60 articles and book chapters on various aspects of endocrinology and has prepared abstracts of more than 40 research projects.
In 2007, Dr. Reddy received the distinction of Mastership in the American College of Endocrinology.
He is past-Chairman of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Cleveland Clinic, and most recently was VP for US Medical Affairs at Merck.
He was a key sponsor of Merck's adherence initiative and was the Lead for Medical Solutions as part of the Global Customer Centricity initiative at Merck. He has consistently supported continuing education and collaboration between academia and pharma.
Dr. Reddy has been actively involved in numerous clinically relevant projects with AACE since 1996 and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the American College of Endocrinology.
Reddy has received several honors and awards, including two awards for teaching. In 1990 he was chosen First Alternate for the American College of Physicians Teaching & Research Award, and in 1992 he received the Department of Medicine Excellence Award in Teaching. He was also the Nova Scotia Medical Research Foundation Scholar from 1991 - 1994.
