Wayne Tyrus Willis, PhD

Dr. Wayne Willis is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology and the UAHS Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Prior to coming to the University of Arizona, Dr. Willis was Associate Professor for the Arizona State University Department of Health and Physical Education. Before his arrival at ASU, Dr. Willis carried out his doctoral research with the Membrane Bioenergetics Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and subsequently spent three years doing postdoctoral work on the effects of dietary iron deficiency on the thermodynamics of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.