Robert S. Zimmerman, MD, FACE, is the Associate Program Director of the Cleveland Clinic Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Previously, he was director of the Ochsner Diabetes Institute and medical director of the Division of Nutrition at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, Louisiana. Zimmerman received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. He served an internship and residency in internal medicine at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. He then completed a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Zimmerman's research interests include stress and hypertension, hypothyroidism and metabolic abnormalities. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts. Zimmerman is a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, American Diabetes Association, Endocrine Society and a fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association.