About Us

Division Chief

Peter Arvan, MD, PhD

Peter Arvan, MD, PhD, is Chief of the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes (MEND), and is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular and Integrative Physiology. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his MD and PhD degrees from Yale University. Following residency training in Internal Medicine, Dr. Arvan completed fellowship training in Endocrinology at Yale. He then joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1988. He moved to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York in 1996 and became Division Chief at the University of Michigan in 2003.

Dr. Arvan's research group is located within the Brehm Tower - which houses a group of highly accomplished basic and clinical investigators focused on finding new therapies that better treat diabetes and other endocrine diseases. His laboratory is funded by public research support (National Institutes of Health) as well as private research support. His research work has focused on hormone synthesis, especially in two areas: thyroid hormone synthesis and insulin synthesis. He is specifically interested in understanding how the proteins that are hormone precursors are made and converted into medically-active hormones, and how these steps go wrong in various endocrine diseases.

Dr. Arvan's area of greatest clinical expertise is in the management of thyroid disease, especially causes and treatments of hypo- and hyper-thyroidism and their associated disorders. He formerly served as Editorial Board member of the journal Thyroid and The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 

Dr. Arvan has received numerous awards and honors. He was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians. He was named as a Pfizer Visiting Professor, a Burroughs-Wellcome Visiting Professor, the Sidney Ingbar Lecturer at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital (Boston), and is the Brehm Professor of Diabetes Research at the University of Michigan.

Faculty Leadership

Nazanene Esfandiari, MD
Service Chief, Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes
Co-Director, Endocrine Sequence for Medical Students

Jennifer Wyckoff, MD
Medical (and ACU) Director, Diabetes Clinical Program, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Diabetes Patient Education Programs, Michigan Medicine

Tobias Else, MD
Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Training Program

Andrew Kraftson, MD
Assistant Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Training Program
Director, Body Weight Navigation Program

Richard Auchus, MD, PhD
Section Chief, Ann Arbor VA Hospital
Principal Investigator, T32 Endocrinology Training Grant, Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes

Charles Burant, MD, PhD
Director, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute 
Director, Michigan Metabolomics Core

Gary Hammer, MD, PhD
Director, Endocrine Oncology Program

Megan Haymart, MD
Director of Thyroid Cancer Research, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of Endocrine Oncology Health Outcomes Research Core

William Herman, MD, MPH
Stefan S. Fajans MD/GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Diabetes
Director, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research (MCDTR)

Crystal Holmes, DPM, CWSP
Director of Podiatry
Co-Investigator, Diabetic Foot Consortium

Craig Jaffe, MD
Associate Chief of Staff for Education, Ann Arbor VA Hospital

Michael Munson, DPM
Director, Podiatry Fellowship Training Program

Martin Myers, Jr., MD, PhD
Executive Director, Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute
Director, Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC)

Elif Oral, MD
Director, Post-Bariatric Endocrinology Clinic
Director, Atypical Diabetes Clinic

Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Internal Medicine
Principal Investigator, Diabetic Foot Consortium

Amy Rothberg, MD
Director, Michigan Medical Weight Management Program

Scott Soleimanpour, MD
Associate Director for Type 1 Diabetes Basic Research, Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute

Division Administrator

Olushola Samuel

Olushola Samuel, MPH
Division Administrator
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes
Domino's Farms, Lobby G, Suite 1500
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, P.O. Box 482
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone: 734-647-5400
[email protected]

Our clinical faculty provide expert care for patients with a large number of endocrinological and metabolic conditions including diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, pituitary diseases, thyroid diseases, adrenal diseases, abnormalities in the reproductive axis, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. We also service ongoing clinical programs for obesity and gestational diabetes, and oversee the inpatient hyperglycemia program, which is predicated on the evidence that improved glucose control limits hospital-acquired infections, improves wound healing, and shortens patients length of stay.

Patient care is provided at the University of Michigan Health hospital and at outpatient facilities, including our MEND-Podiatry Clinic at Domino's Farms, Rogel Cancer Center, and U-M Health centers in East Ann Arbor, Northville, Brighton, Chelsea, and Saline.

Our internationally recognized mission of basic science research includes cutting-edge investigations in the areas of diabetes, obesity, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, and neuroendocrine diseases. Studies are conducted at the molecular, cellular, and physiological levels using a wide range of model systems. We receive approximately $10 million in direct costs per year in NIH funding, plus additional industry and foundation grants.

The MEND Division is committed to preparing physicians and scientists of tomorrow. We have a Endocrinology Fellowship Training Program, Podiatry Fellowship Training Program, and Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research. 

Our division hosts several annual educational opportunities each year, including the Stefan S. Fajans Lecture in Diabetes, John C. Floyd, Jr. Memorial Fellows Lecture in Endocrinology, and David E. Schteingart Lecture in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes. We also hold regularly scheduled conferences, including our weekly clinical and research conferences, that feature the latest findings by our physicians, researchers from other areas of Michigan Medicine, and invited guest speakers. Learn more.