This ia group for testing some new features in the NLA Community System. Anyone can join, we will welcome your feedback as we test this new features. By joining this group, you are consenting to receive emails that test group features to provide feedback on those features.

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Public Awareness Committee

2011 Chair:  B Bottenberg, DO

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) Committee

2011 Chair:  J. Antonio G. Lopez, MD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Professional Education Committee

2011 Chairs:  Robert Greenfield, MD and Brian Chesnie, MD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Special Populations Committee

2011 Chair:  J. Antonio G. Lopez, MD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Lifestyle Committee

2011 Chairs:  Mary Felando, MS, RD and Drew Garcia, PA-C

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA International Outreach Committee

2011 Chair:  Wayne True, MD, MPH

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Diabetes Outreach Committee

2011 Chair:  Paul Rosenblit, MD, PhD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA 2012 Planning Committee

2011 Chairs:  John Nelson, MD and J. Antonio G. Lopez, MD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Lipid Spin Committee

2011 Chair:  John Nelson, MD

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Allied Health Committee

2011 Chair:  Drew Garcia, PA-C

This Group is created to facilitate the PLA Advocacy Committee

2011 Chairs:  John Nelson, MD and Edward Gill, MD

This group is created to help faciliate the NLA Practice Management Committee. We can use this group to hold online discussions and to post important materials for all participants.

Group Members

Ralph La Forge, MSc - Co-Chair

Kaye-Eileen Willard, MD - Co-Chair

Karen E. Aspry, MD

Harold Bays, MD

Gretchen Benson, RD

Jackie Boucher. RD

Anne C. Goldberg, MD

Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD

John Nelson, MD

Julia R. Nordgren, MD

Gregory Pokrywka, MD

Jennifer Robinson, MD, MPH

Tonimarie Swartz, PharmD

Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD

This Consumer Affairs Committee (CAC) online group will vet a statin adherence survey to be sent to approximately 10,000 consumers in the United States this summer via phone and internet.

This is a confidential, restricted access group by invitation only and all files posted to this group's page are embargoed.

Please contact Amy Waller, NLA Sr. Communications Manager, at awaller@lipid.org and copy Megan Seery at mseery@lipid.org to submit your survey revisions. Amy will oversee this project while Megan is out from May 27-June 9.

All survey revisions are due by the close of business on Friday, June 10.

Welcome to the National Lipid Association Finance Committee group. All files are located under the "Group Files" tab.

4/20/2011 - Call In Information

The 4/20/2011 meeting of the Finance Committee will be in go-to meeting format. Please see the following instructions:

1. To Join the Meeting

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/415332514

Meeting Password:  lipid

Meeting ID: 415-332-514

2. Call In Using your Telephone

Dail:  (786) 358-5413

Access Code:  415-332-514

Audio PIN:  Shown after joining the meeting

This group has been created to open the discussion about Omega-3 acid supplement.

Dedicated to the NLA Awards

This group is for members of the NLA Communications Committee.

This online group is for the FH Panel faculty to post and share resources and ideas in anticipation of the upcoming Consensus Conference in January 2011.

Should faculty need assistance in relation to this particular online group, please contact Megan Seery at mseery@lipid.org or (904) 309-6203.

Group linking Lipidology  Fellowship Programs and Program  Directors . Please Post your fellowship program description.

This is our area for board discussions. The agendas, files and minutes will be loaded to this site.

Chris

Group focused on awareness, diagnoses and treatment of patients with familial hyperlipidemia

This committee area is designed for our work on the Lipid Pulse.

All documents, photos and files will be in this area and accesible only to comittee members. Please try to use this site as much as possible for coordinating drafts...etc...

Chri

Topics involving "Alternative Medicine" or "CAM"

This is a group for the discussion of lipidology in pediatric populations

Florida Committee - coming soon

All Nurses; RN's, NP's, CNS with an interest in lipidology! The nurse's role and building lipid clinics with nurse managers!

This is a group where nephrologists and lipidologists can discuss common renal disorders and how they affect lipoprotein metabolism.

A major change in global demographics is underway, and will intensify over the next generation, there is evidence for an aging population in almost all developed countries as well as those undergoing major developement. Health problems accompanying this change include Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frailty, and of course coronary heart disease.  Aging is a risk factor, which while not new, may represent new cholesterol in terms of research into its many manifestations and concerted efforts to improve its theraputic interventions, as well as its long term evolution in clinical medicine toward effective approaches.

Join the Baltimore Washington Lipid Club !

This group is for discussion of potential changes to the publication The Lipid Spin.

The page will be used by the Pacific Lipid Association Board of Directors to discuss board issues. 

The exercise and physical activity (EPA) group includes discussion on the clinical application of exercise (more formal exercise training, systematic workout) and/or physical activity (any physical activity but not necessarily a formal workout, e.g., yard or house work) to patients at risk for cardiometabolic disease, dyslipidemia, hypertension, etc. and including EPA's role in primary or secondary prevention.  Each PDF file in the "Groups Files" link is a relevant and recent paper on several very current issues in EPA's role in weight loss, cardiometabolic risk reduction, and dyslipidema.

This group will be used by the National Lipid Association to discuss and address board related business. 

This group will be used by the Midwest Lipid Association to discuss and address board related business. 

This group will be used by the Northeast Lipid Association to discuss and address board related business.

This group will be used by the Southeast Lipid Association to discuss and address board related business.

This group will be used by the Southwest Lipid Association throughout the year to communicate and address board related business. 

This group deals with the treatment of lipid disorders in women of child bearing age. The group will focus on both risk assessment in the younger woman and the safe use of lipid altering drugs and alternatives in the women of child bearing age. Use of lipid drugs in pregnancy will be a focus also.

Biweekly, real-world, high level, lipid case discussions, several of which have been featured in the Lipid Spin. Each case is analyzed with respect to risk assessment, lipid/lipoprotein diagnosis, pathophysiology and lifestyle and pharmacological therapies. Previous cases are archived at www.lipidcenter.com under the professionals tab.

A foum to discuss issues revolving around lipids, lipoproteins and atherosclerosis - encompassing areas such as risk assessment, lipid and lipoprotein absorption, synthesis, trafficking, catabolism and excretion, as well as gender issues, drug therapy, hormonal therapies, etc. All are welcome to blog.

This group focuses on Apheresis procedures and recommendations for improved quality of patient care.