Shlomo Melmed, MB, ChB, MACP, is executive vice president of Medicine and Health Sciences, dean of the medical faculty and distinguished professor of Medicine, and is the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Distinguished Chair in Investigative Medicine. He leads the Cedars‑Sinai Health Sciences University, develops and oversees departmental clinical, research and education programs, recruits nationally recognized faculty leadership and maintains the highest academic standards. At Cedars-Sinai, he has shepherded the highest nationally ranked systemwide programs with a sustained impact on the practice of medicine by his clinical leadership and translational endocrinology discoveries. An international authority on pituitary medicine, he has pioneered the discovery and application of novel treatments for endocrine tumors and has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals.
Melmed has been a faculty leader at Cedars‑Sinai for 45 years and has been the health system’s chief academic officer since 1998. Melmed's laboratory consistently has received competitive grant awards from the National Institutes of Health since 1980, and he has trained over 80 physicians, scientists and graduate students who occupy leading positions in academic endocrinology worldwide. He serves on NIH Endocrinology Study Sections, was editor in-chief of Endocrinology and of Pituitary, is editor of Williams Textbook of Endocrinology and is a consulting editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and has served on the Endocrine Society Council. He is past president of the International Society of Endocrinology, president and founding member of the Pituitary Society, and a member of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee.
Melmed was elected to Master of the American College of Physicians and is a recipient of the Litchfield Lectureship of Oxford University, and the Dale Medal and Transatlantic Medal from the British Endocrine Society and the Endocrine Society. He has been honored with the Pituitary Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Investigator Award and Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award, and the Royal Society of Medicine’s Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal. He has been named one of America’s top physicians and has received Cedars‑Sinai’s Pioneer in Medicine Award.
Melmed earned a bachelor of medicine and a bachelor of surgery (MB, ChB) with distinction from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, certified in endocrinology and metabolism.