Lois Jovanovic, M.D. - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Dr. Lois Jovanovic is an internist specializing in endocrinology and metabolism. She became Director of the Sansum Medical Research Institute in Santa Barbara in 1996 and is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She directed the Diabetes Program at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and currently is the Chief of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Jovanovic has been actively involved in research for many years. She was Principal Investigator of the Cornell University Medical College Program for both The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and The Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study. She also developed the Diabetes and Pregnancy Program and protocols of intensive insulin delivery, which became the basis for many of the systems of insulin delivery today. Her work in the field of diabetes and pregnancy has become the mainstay of therapy for all diabetic pregnant women, and the protocols she developed have increased the chances of diabetic pregnant women having a healthy infant from only 20% to the same chances as non-diabetic women.

Dr. Jovanovic has authored over 200 articles, including 76 for refereed journals, and 25 books on the topic of diabetes and pregnancy and islet cell transplantation. She serves on the editorial boards of Diabetes Self-Management, Human Sexuality, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the American Journal of Perinatology and is a contributing editor for the Journal of the American College of Nutrition and special editor for Endocrine Practice, the Journal of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. In addition, Dr. Jovanovic serves on the national board of directors of the American Diabetes Association and is a member of their Publication Policy Committee.

Board Certifications

---

American Board of Internal Medicine - 1976

ABIM Subspecialty Board, Endocrinology - 1979

Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed

---

Gestational Diabetes

Education

---

M.D.: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York - 1973

Internship in Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical University Medical College, 1973 - 1974

Junior Resident in Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical University Medical College, 1974-1975

Senior Resident in Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical University Medical College, 1975 - 1976

Research Fellow in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Cornell University Medical College, 1976 - 1978

Academic Appointments

---

Assistant Attending Physician, The New York Hospital, 1978 - 1985

Cornell University Medical College:

• Instructor in Medicine, 1978 - 1979
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, 1979 - 1985
• Associate Professor of Medicine, 1985 - 1986
• Assistant Professor in Obstetrics/Gynecology, 1979 - 1985

Associate Professor in Obstetrics/Gynecology, 1985 - 1986 Rockefeller University:

• Guest Investigator, 1977 - 1978
• Assistant Adjunct Professor, 1979 - 1985
• Assistant Physician, 1977 - 1980
• Associate Physician, 1980 - 1985

Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 1986 - 1988

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Medical Center, 1986 - 1989

Faculty member, University of Barcelona, Spain, 1994

University of Southern California, Los Angeles Medical Center:

• Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, 1986 - 1989
• Clinical Professor of Medicine, 1989 -

Research Biologist, University of California Santa Barbara, 1990

Hospital Appointments

---

Associate Director, Clinical Research Center, New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center, 1980- 1985

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital:

• Faculty in Internal Medicine and staff member, 1986 -
• Director, Diabetes Program, 1987 -
• Co-director, Nutrition Support Team, 1990 -
• Chief, Division of Endocrinology, 1992 -
• Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, 1994 -
• Chair, Peer Review, Department of Medicine 1994 -
• Chair, Department of Medicine, 1997 - 1999

Professional Affiliations

---

American College of Endocrinology

American College of Nutrition

American College of Physicians

American Federation of Clinical Research

American Medical Women's Association

Association for Program Directors

Endocrine Society

American Diabetes Association and Council on Diabetes and Pregnancy

European Association for the Study of Diabetes

International Advisory Council, Fundacion Diabetes, Endocrinologiay Metabolismo

National Kidney Foundation

Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of Southern Africa

Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Society of Obstetric Medicine

Selected Publications

---

1. Jovanovic-Peterson L, Peterson CM (1996). Vitamin and mineral deficiencies which may predispose to glucose intolerance of pregnancy. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 15: 14 - 20.
2. Bashoff EC, Johnson LM, Jovanovic L, et al. (1998). Women and diabetes: Special health concerns. Patient Care 32: 112 - 135.
3. Jovanovic L (1998) Sex and the diabetic woman: Desire versus dysfunction. Diabetes Reviews 6: 65 - 72.
4. Jovanovic L (1998). Management of diet and exercise in gestational diabetes mellitus. Prenatal Neonatal Medicine 3: 534 - 541.
5. Mills JL, Jovanovic L, Knopp R (1998). Physiological reduction in fasting plasma glucose concentrations in the first trimester of normal pregnancy: The diabetes in early pregnancy study. Metabolism 47: 1140 - 1144.
6. 5. Jovanovic L, Ilic S, Pettitt DJ, Hugo K, Gutierrez M, Bowsher RR, Bastyr EJ, Metabolic and immunologic effects of insulin lispro in gestational diabetes. Diabetes Care 22:1422-1427, 1999.

Selected Textbooks/Chapters

---

1. Jovanovic-Peterson L, Levert S (1993, revised 1996). A Woman Doctor's Guide to Menopause. New York: Hyperion.
2. Jovanovic L, Sperling MA, Schover LR, et al. (1998). Women's Sexual Health. The Uncomplicated Guide to Diabetes Complication. Levin ME and Pfeiffer MA, eds. Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association.
3. Jovanovic L, Arsham G (1998). Diabetes Spectrum, From Research to Practice: Diabetes in Women and Men. Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association.

Financial Disclosure

---

This reviewer reported no financial conflicts.