Professional Bio
Barbara Carranza Leon, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She received her medical degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima Peru, completed her internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern, in Dallas Texas and she completed her fellowship in Endocrinology at Mayo Clinic.
Her two areas of interest and of clinical practice are obesity medicine and management of complex cholesterol disorders. Dr. Carranza Leon is a co-investigator on lipid related clinical trials. Her qualities as an educator have been recognized as she has received the William D. Salmon Teaching Award from the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at VUMC.
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Education
MD - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2006
Internship - Internal Medicine - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2010
Residency - Internal Medicine - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2012
Fellowship - Diabetes/Endo - Mayo Clinic, 2015
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307