Christos Socrates Mantzoros MD, DSc, PhD

Dr. Christos Socrates Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has also served as a Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Mantzoros currently serves as the Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the Boston VA Healthcare System, where he created a leading academic division true to its tripartite mission. He also serves as the Director of Human Nutrition, which he created at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School. He has performed groundbreaking research in several areas of nutrition and metabolism, sees patients himself, runs a clinical group, and has developed clinical programs; he has grown people’s careers, he has co-founded companies and published patents, and he has presented endowed lectures and received awards at national and international meetings.

Importantly, he is an active clinical endocrinologist practicing in the outpatient (two clinics per week) and inpatient settings, including covering the call service. The clinical division he created for the VA Boston Healthcare System has expanded tremendously and covers several hospitals and clinic locations, is affiliated with Harvard, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts Medical Schools, and brings together, in terms of clinical and education, all VA endocrinologists up to the Canadian borders.