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Expert, an experienced diabetologist, is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Expert was Director of the Diabetes Program at the Detroit Medical Center for sixteen years as well as the Medical Director of Wayne State University's Morris J. Hood Comprehensive Diabetes Center. Expert also held tenured Full Professor appointments at the University in Department of Internal Medicine and in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics since 1986. Between 1997 and 2001 he was Henry L. Brasza Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics. Prior to that (1995-1996) Expert served as interim Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Detroit Medical Center. Expert was originally recruited to Detroit from the Diabetes Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD where he worked as a basic and clinical researcher for six years. Expert has received his internal medicine training at the University Hospitals of Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University, his medical (M.D.) training at the New York University School of Medicine and his bachelor's degree (in biochemistry) at Columbia College of Columbia University, also in New York City.

Expert's research endeavors have been well recognized. He has published about hundred original peer-reviewed manuscripts, in addition to review articles, abstracts, book chapters, and letters to journals. His research interests have spanned the spectrum of subjects related to diabetes and its complications, from very basic studies on molecular underpinning of insulin action and insulin resistance to clinical research studies on many aspects of diabetes and its management. In 2002 he edited a book on latest advances in insulin signal transduction. Expert has been an active member of many professional organizations and societies (American Diabetes Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Endocrine Society, European Associations for Study of Diabetes, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, etc.) where he has held elected positions of leadership. Expert has also led a productive career as an educator, training and mentoring countless medical students, interns, residents, endocrinology fellows, master's and Ph.D. candidates, and junior faculty.