Dr. Heyward is an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Neuroscience, housed in the Center for Hypothalamic Research; he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in September of 2023. Dr. Heyward completed his postdoctoral research fellowship, and became an Instructor in Medicine, at Harvard Medical School and the Endocrinology division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), while working in the lab of Dr. Evan Rosen. During his postdoc he studied the transcriptional regulation of appetite during periods of hunger and leptin-mediated hunger-suppression. Dr. Heyward earned his PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham while working with Dr. David Sweatt while investigating the epigenetic basis of obesity-induced cognitive impairment.