Eleftheria Maratos-Flier is an American endocrinologist,[1] and emerita Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,[2] best known for her expertise in the pathophysiology and prevention of obesity-related metabolic disorders,[3][4] and for her discoveries on the neuroendocrine control of feeding behaviour.
[9] Her marriage with professor Jeffrey Flier, was noted by Forbes[10] as a lasting and productive bond between eminent medical scholars.
[15] In Massachusetts (1978-1981), she pursued further residency training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard School of Public Health, and Clinical Fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
[18] She has also been an attending endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she still provides care for patients with metabolic disease.
She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers,[21] most of them studying aspects of obesity and type II diabetes in experimental mouse models, and also in clinical disease.