Jeffrey M. Zigman MD, PhD

Dr. Zigman grew up in New Jersey and performed undergraduate studies at Cornell University. He obtained a dual MD-PhD degree from the University of Chicago, and remained in Chicago to complete an Internal Medicine residency. Dr. Zigman next moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he completed a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. It was in Boston, while working under the mentorship of Drs. Joel Elmquist and Jeffrey Garber, where Dr. Zigman’s research and clinical interests in the hormone ghrelin and thyroid nodular disease, respectively, first arose. Dr. Zigman is currently an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he is affiliated with the Division of Hypothalamic Research and the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism.