Faculty Biographies and Disclosures

Steven Haffner, MD

Dr. Haffner is professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology in San Antonio. He received his medical degree in 1975 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He also received a masters in public health in 1982 (epidemiology) from the University of Washington. Dr. Haffner has published more than 350 scientific publications and has written many review articles and book chapters in his field. His major research interests include insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes as well as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Haffner wrote the American Diabetes Association technical review on diabetic dyslipidemia, which suggested that type 2 diabetes might be considered a coronary heart disease equivalent. This hypothesis was accepted by the National Cholesterol Education Program of which Dr. Haffner was a consultant. He also helped to establish that the pre-diabetic state is atherogenic. Dr. Haffner has been on the steering committee and taken part in several NIH-funded projects including the Diabetes Education Program, Look AHEAD (weight loss effect on cardiovascular disease in diabetic subjects) and the Insulin Resistant Atherosclerosis Study.