Dr. Dawn K. Coletta is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona with joint appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Physiology. She also serves as Associate Director of Clinical and Translational Genomics at the UA Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism. Dr. Coletta joined the University of Arizona in August 2016. Before that, she held faculty appointments as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology at Arizona State University/Mayo Clinic and in the Division of Diabetes in the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). She earned her Ph.D. from Aston University and completed postdoctoral training in the Diabetes Division at UTHSCSA. Dr. Coletta brings over 20 years of expertise in human physiology, with a research program dedicated to investigating the genetic and epigenetic drivers of insulin resistance.