13 Facts About Jeffrey Flier

Jeffrey Flier is an American physician, endocrinologist; widely cited scientist; the Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Harvard Medical School; and a Distinguished Service Professor at the same institution.

Jeffrey Flier was the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University from 2007 to 2016.

Jeffrey Flier is the son of Milton R Flier, a World War II C-47 pilot and businessperson, and Dorothy Flier, who taught junior high school mathematics.

Jeffrey Flier graduated in 1964 from the Bronx High School of Science, and 1968 from the City College of New York.

Jeffrey Flier was in the first entering class of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1968, and graduated in 1972 with the Elster Prize for highest academic standing.

Jeffrey Flier moved to Boston in 1978, becoming an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Diabetes Unit at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital.

Jeffrey Flier subsequently became chief of the hospital's Endocrinology Division, vice chair for research of the Department of Medicine, and eventually the hospital's chief academic officer in 2002, overseeing research and educational affairs.

Jeffrey Flier was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Caroline Shields Walker professor of medicine at Harvard in July 2007 by President Drew Faust and assumed the position on September 1,2007.

Jeffrey Flier played a major role in defining genetic causes of insulin resistance by identifying and characterizing mutations in the insulin receptor gene in a subset of patients with severe insulin resistance.

In 2005, he reported the possible role of adult hypothalamic neurogenesis in the control of energy balance; Regarding inflammatory phenomena in metabolic disease, Jeffrey Flier helped establish that Toll-like receptor 4 activation in adipocytes and macrophages mediates inflammation accompanying obesity, and subsequent insulin resistance in diabetes.

Jeffrey Flier has questioned the blanket and often ineffective approach toward DEI initiatives.

Jeffrey Flier is an endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and currently a director of clinical research at Alynylam Pharmaceuticals.

Jeffrey Flier has published over 350 research papers papers and subject reviews, which have been jointly cited over 110.000 times, his overall h-index is 150.