VP, Chief Medical Officer
Robert Vigersky, MD

  • Dr. Vigersky serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at MiniMed, where he leads global medical affairs and clinical strategy.
  • A retired Army Medical Corps colonel, Dr. Vigersky spent 27 years on active duty at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he founded the Diabetes Institute of the Walter Reed Health Care System. He continues to care for patients at Walter Reed as an American Red Cross volunteer and serves as Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
  • Dr. Vigersky is a past President of the Endocrine Society and has published more than 320 peer-reviewed papers and abstracts focused on diabetes. 
  • Dr. Vigersky earned a BA and MD from Boston University. He completed his internship and residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and his fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health.