Faculty

Faculty members

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Zuhier Awan

MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC, FACB, FNLA, FAHA, FACE

Associate Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetic Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Faculty of Pharmacy Head, Clinical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

William Virgil Brown

MD

Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus Emory University School of Medicine

Wael Abdulrahman Almahmeed

MD

Consultant Cardiologist, Heart and Vascular Institute in Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi; UAE University; Cleveland Clinic, Oh

Viviane Rocha

MD

Cardiologist, Heart Institute (Incor), University of Sao Paulo and at the Molecular Cardiology of Fleury Group Scientific Director of Atherosclerosis Department of Brazilian Society of Cardiology Sao Paulo, Brazil

Tiziana Sampietro

MD, PhD

Head, Regional Reference Center for Inherited Dyslipidemia. Senior Medical Officer. CNR Regione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Foundation /AOUP National Health Service, National Research Organization. Pisa, Italy

Thamer Alessa

MD, FACE, CCD

Consultant physician and Head of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital and a Clinical Staff at Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait

Terje Pedersen

MD

Professor Emeritus (Preventive Cardiology); Head of Research at the Centre for Preventive Medicine at Oslo University, Oslo, Norway

Tawfeg Ben-Omran

MD, FRCPC, FCCMG, FACMG

Chief, Genetic and Genomic-Sidra Medicine Sr. Consultant, Medical Genetic Department-Hamad Medical Corporation Associate Professor- Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar & New York, USA Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, USA Doha, Qatar

Tarek M Fiad

MBBCh, FRCPI, FRCP, MD

Consultant Endocrinologist Endocrinology Division, Department of Medicine, SKMC, UAE

Subodh Verma

MD

Cardiac Surgeon, St Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON Scientist, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery.

Stephen Wiviott

MD, FACC

Vice President, Clinical Trials Research and Administration, Mass General Brigham Cardiovascular Division , Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Stephen Nicholls

MBBS, PhD

Director, MonashHeart Director, Victorian Heart Institute Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sotirios (Sam) Tsimikas

MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine and Director of Vascular Medicine at the University of California San Diego, CA, USA

Samuel S. Gidding

MD

Geisinger Genomic Medicine Institute

Samia Mora

MD, MHS, FACC

Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for Lipid Metabolomics Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA

Salim S. Virani

MD, PhD

Professor in the Sections of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas

Roopa Mehta

MD, MBBS, MRCP

Metabolic Diseases Research Unit (UIEM), Department of Endocrinology National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ) Mexico City, Mexico

Rodrigo Alonso

MD, PhD

Co-Director Center for Advanced Metabolic Medicine and Nutrition, Santiago de Chile President Chilean Atherosclerosis Working Group Corporation Chair of the IAS Regional Federation for Americas

Robert Hegele

MD, FRCPC

Robarts Research Institute, Western Ontario University, London, ON, Canada

Rhanderson Cardoso

MD

Chief Fellow in Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Renan Montenegro, Jr.

MD, PhD

Federal University of Ceara, Brazil

Raul D. Santos

MD, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor and Director Lipid Clinic Heart Institute (InCor) University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital Sao Paulo-Brazil Researcher Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein President International Atherosclerosis Society

Rabih R. Azar

MD, MPH, FACC

Professor of Medicine at the St. Joseph University; Chief of the Cardiology Division at the Hotel Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon

Chris J. Packard

CBE, FRSE

Professor of Vascular Biochemistry Senior Research Fellow Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences University of Glasgow

Philip Barter

MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Peter W. F. Wilson

MD

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, Professor of Public Health (Global Health, Epidemiology) in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and Director of Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center

Peter Libby

MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, MA

Peter Lansberg

MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics Section Molecular Genetics University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Paul M. Ridker

MD, MPH

Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Brigham and Women’s Hospital Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine Harvard School of Medicine Boston, MA, USA

Paolo Magni

Paola Varleta

MD

Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, Hospital Dipreca, Santiago Chile Secretary of Corporacion Ateroschile, Chile

Pablo Corral

MD

Pharmacology Professor, FASTA University, School of Medicine, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Omar M. Hamoui

MD

Secretary General and Chairman, Preventive Cardiology Lebanese Society of Cardiology; Clemenceau Medical Center

Noor Al Rajhi

MD

Clinical Biochemist Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS) Kuwait

Niaz Khan

MD

Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist at Al Ain

Naveed Sattar

MD

Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre University of Glasgow, UK

Nasreen AL-Sayed

BMedSc, MD, FACP, FACE

President Gulf Association of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Consultant Endocrinologist & Lipidologist, Gulf Medical & Diabetes Center, Kingdom of Bahrain.

Mousa Akbar

MD

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist. Head of Cardiology Unit. AlSabah Hospital , Kuwait

Mohammed Saleh Al Dubayee

MHSc,CDE

Associate Professor College of Medicine King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) Riyadh, KSA

Michal Vrablik

MD, PhD

Professor of Internal Medicine at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, the Czech Republic

Marina Cuchel

MD, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Philadelphia, PA

Mariko Harada Shiba

MD, PhD

Department of Molecular Pathogenesis National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute Kishibeshinmachi, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Maria Cristina Izar

MD, PhD

Lipids, Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology Section Cardiology Division Federal University of Sao Paulo

Marcello Arca

MD

Department Of Translational And Precision Medicine Sapienza University Of Rome, Rome, Italy

Malek Mohamad

MD

President of the Lebanese Society of Cardiology Bahman Hospital; Clemenceau Medical Center

Luis Masana

MD, PhD

Director Vascular Medicine and Metabolism Unit Universitat Rovira i Virgili IISPV, CIBERDEM Reus, Spain

Lawrence A Leiter

MD, FRCPC, FACP

Director of the Lipid Clinic Associate Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre Associate Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto Professor Departments of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto

Kris V. Kowdley

MD

Director, Liver Institute Northwest Washington State University, Seattle, WA, USA

Kris V. Kowdley

Khalid Al Waili

B.Sc., MD, FRCPC, DABCL

Senior Consultant Medical Biochemist & Lipidologist Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Muscat, Oman.

Khalid Al Rasadi

MD

Sultan Qaboos University Head of Department of Biochemistry SQU College of Medicine and Health Sciences Muscat, Oman

Khalid Al Habib

MD

Professor of Cardiology College of Medicine King Saud University; Dallah Hospital; King Fahad Cardiac Center

Khadijah Al Elaj

MD

Clinical Biochemist Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS) Kuwait

Keith C. Ferdinand

MD, FACC, FAHA

Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventive Cardiology Professor of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA

Kathleen Wyne

MD, PhD, FACE, FNLA

The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA

Karol E. Watson

MD, PhD

UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA, USA

Juan Patricio Nogueira

MD

Health Faculty Sciences of Formosa National University

Jennifer G. Robinson

MD, MPH

Prevention Intervention Center Department of Epidemiology University of Iowa Iowa City, IA, USA

Jean-Pierre Després

MD

VITAM – Research Centre on Sustainable Health Laval, Canada

Jean-Charles Fruchart

PharmD, PhD

Professor, Pasteur Institute President of R3i Foundation

Ioanna Gouni-Berthold

MD

Professor of Internal Medicine at at the Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine University of Cologne, Germany

Henry N Ginsberg

MD

Irving Professor of Medicine and Past Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Heiner Greten

MD

Asklepios Klinik St. Georg Hamburg, Germany

Hani Sabbour

MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE

Staff Physician in the Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Gerald F. Watts

DSc, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRACP, FCSANZ

Senior Consultant Physician Full Professor and Chair The Familial Hypercholesterolaemia-Australasia Network

Frederick Raal

MBBCh, FRCP, FCP(SA), Cert Endo, MMED, PhD

Professor & Head Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism , Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Frank Sacks

MD

Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Francois Mach

MD, FESC

Head of Cardiology Department Director of cardiovascular basic research Geneva Faculty of Medicine Geneva University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland

Faouzi Maatouk

MD

Professor in Cardiology Head of Cardiology Department Monastir Hospital Monastir, Tunisia

Fahad Alnouri

MD, MSc, FESC, FACC

President of the Saudi Group for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh

Eugene Braunwald

MD

Chairman, TIMI Study Group Professor, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Erin Donnelly Michos

MD, MHS

Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland Co-Editor in Chief, American Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Erin Bohula

MD, DPhil

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Investigator, TIMI Study Group Boston, MA, USA

Erik S. Stroes

MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dong Zhao

MD, PhD

Department of Epidemiology Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases Capital Medical University Beijing Anzhen Hospital Beijing, China

Dirk Blom

MBChB, MMed, FCP (SA), PhD

Division of Lipidology Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Daniel Gaudet

MD, PhD

Department of Medicine Université de Montréal and ECOGENE-21 Chicoutimi, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Borge Nordestgaard

MD, DMSc

Professor, University of Copenhagen, Chief Physician, Dept. Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

Asma Deeb

MD

Chair of Paediatric Endocrinology Shaikh Shakhbout Medical City Abu Dhabi, UAE

Aruna D. Pradhan

MD, MPH, MSc

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

MD, DPhil, FACC

Dean Emeritus and Provost for Medical Affairs Emeritus Member of the Board of Overseers of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas

MD

Heart Institute FMUSP/FMABC University of São Paulo, Brazil

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

MD DMSc

Chief Physician at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Section for Molecular Genetics, at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor of Clinical Biochemistry with Focus on Translational Molecular Cardiology at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anat Yaskolka-Meir

Allan Sniderman

MD, FRCP(C), FRSC

Edwards Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at McGill University Director of the Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research at Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alice H. Lichtenstein

DSc

Senior Scientist and Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the HNRCA, A Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School.

Alice Y.Y. Cheng

MD

Endocrinologist Trillium Health Partners & Unity Health, Toronto Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Alberto J Lorenzatti

MD, MTFAC, FACC

Head, Lipid Clinic & Cardiovascular Prevention – Cardiology Department – Hospital Córdoba (Cordoba-Argentina) Co-Director, DAMIC Medical Institute / Rusculleda Foundation for Research, Teaching and Patient Care

Albert Wiegman

MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiologist Associate Professor Principal investigator Chair Examiners Medical Faculty Amsterdam UMC Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alberico Catapano

MD

Full Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Center of Epidemiology and Preventive Pharmacology at the University of Milan,Director of the Laboratory of Lipoproteins, Immunity and Atherosclerosis and the Center for the Study of Atherosclerosis at Bassini Hospital, and at Multimedica IRCCS Milan, Italy.

Ahmad Al Sarraf

MD, FRCPC

Head of Lipid unit, Sabah AlAhmad Cardiac Center Laboratory director, Dasman Diabetes Institute Program director, Clinical Biochemistry Kuwait

Ada Cuevas

MD, MSc

Center for Advanced Metabolic Medicine (CAMMYN) School of Medicine, University Finis Terrae

Abdulmajeed Al Zubaidi

MD

Chief Medical Officer Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

Abdullah Shehab

MD

Vice President of Gulf Intervention Society; Immediate Past President of Emirates Society of Cardiology; Chairman of Arab Board Cardiology Committee for Arab Board Council

Abdelhadi Habeb

MD

Pediatric Department, Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital for National Guard, Madinah, KSA