Pr. Ishwarlal Jialal is an international authority on metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Pr. Jialal was the Director of Chemical Pathology, Associate Director of Clinical Pathology and Director of Clinical Biochemistry and Human Metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He later joined the UC Davis Medical Center as Director of the Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research. After retiring as Distinguished Professor at the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pr. Jialal now serves as Assistant Dean of Research at the California Northstate University College of Medicine.

With an H-Index of 103, Pr. Jialal is a prolific scholar and has authored more than 560 articles in some of the most prestigious journals, including Diabetes Care, NEJM, Circulation, Nature Reviews, and The Lancet. His research on diabetes and cardiovascular disease has received countless awards and has been funded by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pr. Jialal also served on the Editorial Board of Diagnostic Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinical Chemistry, Atherosclerosis, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Pr. Jialal was also Editor-in-Chief of Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders and Contributing Editor of Nutrition Reviews. He also served on the Grant Review Panels of the ADA, the JDRF, and the NIH.