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Jeeyeon Cha, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Jeeyeon Cha
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Jeeyeon Cha, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a physician-scientist studying sexual dimorphism in metabolism with a goal to simplify and personalize the care of patients with diabetes. Dr. Cha completed MSTP training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati where she trained under Sudhansu K. Dey, PhD, in developmental biology and reproduction. She then joined the Vanderbilt Physician-Scientist Training Program, the Harrison Society, and completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Adult Endocrinology. She is studying sexually dimorphic responses of the pancreatic islet beta cell in diabetes. Dr. Cha's work has been supported by the NIH, a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Physician-Scientist Fellowship, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists. She was awarded an ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award in 2022.
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Education

PhD - Molecular and Developmental Biology - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2013

MD - University of Cincinnati, 2015

Residency - Internal Medicine - Vanderbilt University, 2017

Fellowship - Adult Endocrinology - Vanderbilt University, 2020

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Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org 
Address 
777 Preston Research Building 
2220 Pierce Ave 
Nashville, TN 37232-6307

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