Nicolas Musi, MD
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Elected 2019

Musi is physician-scientist who received clinical training in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center. He then completed a clinical and research fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Joslin Diabetes Center/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School in 2001, after which he joined the Harvard faculty. He was recruited to University of Texas Health San Antonio in 2003 and served as Director of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.  Musi also has served as PI of a Clinical Center for the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) funded by NIH.  Musi joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2022 where he directs the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He is an active educator and research mentor, and supervises clinical and research fellows, residents and graduate students.  His research expertise is in insulin resistance, aging biology and exercise biology. Musi's research program is devoted to exploring the effects that obesity and aging have on numerous metabolic and cellular processes, and relevant to the pathogenesis of age-related diseases such as diabetes and sarcopenia.