Sangeeta Kashyap MD

Dr. Kashyap is Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Staff Physician in the Department of Endocrinology at Cleveland Clinic since 2004. She graduated from the University of California at Irvine College of Medicine and proceeded to complete a medical residency at George Washington University Hospital and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston. She completed her clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at UCLA/Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a post-doctoral metabolism research fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Dr. Kashyap's clinical and research focus is on insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and the endocrine/hormonal effects of bariatric surgery. She is a recipient of clinical research grants from the American Diabetes Association and the National Institute of Health and serves on both the ADA scientific session program committee and Endocrine Society board review committee. She is also a lead investigator of a randomized control trial to examine bariatric surgery versus advanced medical therapy for type 2 diabetes in the setting of modest obesity. She has over 50 publications in high impact journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and American Journal of Physiology.

She has lectured to national societies including American College of Physicians and American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Dr. Kashyap has a number of teaching awards from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine including the Scholarship in Teaching Award from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Kashyap has trained a number of medical students, residents and fellows and enjoys teaching evidence based medicine.