Dinesh Edem, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine.
Edem is triple board-certified in obesity medicine, internal medicine, and endocrinology. He will be directing a weight management program at UAMS that is aimed at diabetic or prediabetes patients who are considered obese. He is seeing patients at the UAMS Neighborhood Clinic at 11300 Financial Centre Parkway in Little Rock.
He will also be seeing general endocrinology patients in the UAMS endocrine clinic with special interest in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, thyroid disorders, and male hypogonadism.
He comes to UAMS from Indiana University Health in Lafayette, Ind., where he was a clinical assistant professor of medicine and endocrinology from July 2017 until December 2021. He was fellowship-trained in endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh after completing his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Earlier, he received his medical degree from Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, in 2009.