VP, Chief Medical Officer
Robert Vigersky, MD

Dr. Vigersky is VP, Chief Medical Officer of MiniMed Group, Inc., where he leads a team of diabetes experts to ensure our products, research, and clinical decisions are safe, effective, and aligned with patient needs. He has served as Chief Medical Officer at the company since 2019 .   

Dr. Vigersky is a retired Army Medical Corps colonel with 27 years of Active Duty at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he also founded the Diabetes Institute of the Walter Reed Health Care System. Dr. Vigersky still sees patients on a regular basis at Walter Reed Health Care System as a Red Cross volunteer and is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He was a member of the VA/DoD diabetes guideline committee and represented the Department of Defense on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.  He founded the Clinical Practice Guideline Committee of the Endocrine Society and was President of that Society in 2009. Dr Vigersky  has published over 320 scholarly papers and abstracts focusing on the use of technology to improve outcomes of patients with diabetes.  

Dr. Vigersky holds a Bachelor of Arts & MD in Liberal Arts and Medicine from Boston University. He was an Intern and Resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and did his Endocrinology Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.