Dr. Joseph Bass, MD PhD is a Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of Feinberg School of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine at Northwestern University. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and completed training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Chicago, where he was the recipient of fellowships from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Bass remains active as both a clinical endocrinologist and as an NIH-funded investigator.