William Timothy Garvey MD

W. Timothy Garvey, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Chair, of the Department of Nutrition Sciences, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his medical degree, cum laude, from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, followed by a clinical fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California. 

Dr. Garvey has achieved international recognition for his research in the metabolic, molecular, and genetic pathogenesis of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. He has directed an independent laboratory since 1987 supported by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, the American Diabetes Association, and other agencies. He has served as the Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Diabetes Research Center since its initiation in 2008. He has provided service as a member of national research review committees for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the American Diabetes Association, the VA Merit Review Program, and the National Institutes of Health. 

Dr. Garvey currently serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed publications Diabetes Care, Metabolic Syndrome & Related Disorders, Cardiorenal Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Endocrine Society, the American Diabetes Association, the Obesity Society, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists