Rita Basu MD

Dr. Rita Basu, MD., is a tenured Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, department of Medicine at the University of Virginia. She received her medical degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry, India in 1988. In 1996, she joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN as a trainee investigator in integrative physiology of Diabetes and other metabolic disorders in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Rizza. Following completion of her fellowship in 1999 she continued her career in understanding the pathophysiology and mechanisms of insulin resistance in humans with metabolic disorders and rapidly rose through the ranks to a full Professor in the Division of Endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in 2012. She was recently recruited to the UVA faculty as part of a strategic initiative to develop Translational research for diabetes at UVA School of Medicine and Center for Diabetes Technology.