- January 19, 2012 – Ana Marie Cuervo, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, – Title TBA
- March 1, 2012 – Mark Atkinson, PhD, University of Florida – “Role for the microbiome in type 1 diabetes”
- May 17, 2012 – Alan Cherrington, PhD, Vanderbilt University – Title TBA
- September 20, 2012 - John E. Gerich, MD; Emeritus Professor of Medicine; The University of Rochester, Rochester NY; Recipient of the Lilly Award for Scientific Achievement from the American Diabetes Association,the Rumbach Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Association, the Rolf Luft Medal (Karolinska institute) and the Novartis Lifetime Achievement Award
- October 18, 2012 – W. Virgil Brown, MD, Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus; Emory University School of Medicine; Atlanta, GA – “Obesity and changes in Lipoprotein Metabolism”
- November 15, 2012 - Martin G. Myers, Jr., MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Marilyn H. Vincent Professor of Diabetes Research, Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - “Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Leptin Action”
- December 20, 2012 - Karen E. Elkind-Hirsch, Ph, Adjunct Prof., Division of Human Nutrition and Food, Louisiana State University, Adjunct Prof., Pennington Biomedical Research Ctr, Scientific Director of Research, Woman’s Metabolic Health Clinic and Woman’s Health Research Department, Baton Rouge, LA