Dariush Elahi, Ph.D.
Professor, Surgery
Director, Surgical Endocrinology and
 Metabolism Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests:

• Glucose metabolism
• Evaluation of glucose homeostasis with primary aim of elucidation 
  of mechanisms for control of insulin release and action in the 
  intolerant states of diabetes, obesity and aging
• Role of incritins on the regulation of glucose levels

Clinical Interests:

• Clinical physiology

Education:

• 1967 B.S. American University, Washington, D.C.
• 1968 M.S. American University, Washington, D.C. (Biology)
• 1974 Ph.D. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Physiology)

Societies:

• 1974 Member, American Diabetes Association
• 1974-1984 Member, Canadian Physiological Society
• 1975 Member, American Physiological Society

Fellowships:

• 1974-1975 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology
  Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
• 1975-1978 Staff Fellow, Metabolism Section, Gerontology Research Center
  National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD
• 1978-1981 Senior Staff Fellow, Metabolism Section, Gerontology Research Center
  National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD

Phone: 410-550-2385
Fax: 410-550-1895
Email: delahi1@jhmi.edu

Dariush Elahi, Ph.D., professor of surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hopkins University School of Medicine, earned a
master of science degree in biology at American University in Washington, D.C.  After earning a doctorate in physiology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he completed a post doctoral fellowship in physiology at 
Louisiana State University Medical Center.

Known across the country for his research, Elahi has received academic appointments at several prestigious 
institutions and lent his knowledge at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institutes on Aging for over 30 years. He is an expert in the fields of gerontology, clinical physiology, endocrinology and glucose metabolism.