Dr. Jeffrey I. Mechanick is a Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart and in the Cardiovascular Institute and Division of Cardiology, and Director of Metabolic Support in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  He received his M.D. degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, completed his Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and completed his Endocrine Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Mechanick authored over 400 publications in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition Support. Dr. Mechanick currently serves as Chair of the Board of Visitors for the College of Computer, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland at College Park and was also the 2011 recipient of the University of Maryland Industry Impact Award and the Biology Alumnus Award. Dr. Mechanick’s research interests are in the fields of nutrition and metabolic support, obesity and lifestyle medicine, and network analysis of complex systems. Dr. Mechanick is responsible for training cardiology and endocrine fellows at Mount Sinai in lifestyle medicine, nutrition, and metabolic support.