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Rodolfo Galindo, MD, FACE
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Dr. Rodolfo J. Galindo graduated from the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Havana in 2005. Dr. Galindo completed his Internal Medicine residency and Endocrinology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and North Shore University Hospital, in New York. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Galindo was recruited as Assistant Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he was the Director of the Inpatient Diabetes Service. In 2017, Dr. Galindo was recruited by Emory University, to work with his mentor, Dr. Guillermo E. Umpierrez, on clinical investigation in diabetes and obesity. Currently, Dr. Galindo is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami, and Director of the Comprehensive Diabetes Center of UHealth and the Director of Diabetes Management for Jackson Health System, in Miami.

His clinical and research areas of interest included management of diabetes, obesity and CKD, using diabetes technology. His research program is supported by the NIH, NIDDK, foundations and industry. Dr. Galindo has over 120 publications, including peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. His works has been published in high-impact journal including Endocrine Reviews, Diabetes Care, Endocrine Practice, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Journal of the American Surgical Society, etc.