Zahid Ahmad, MD, FNLA

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Lipid Section, Division of Endocrinology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Jaime Almandoz, MD, MBA

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Archna Bajaj, MD

Assistant Professor
Division of Translational Medicine & Human Genetics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, FNLA

President, National Lipid Association
Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Research
Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention
Professor of Medicine, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Integrative Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Semenawit Burka, MD

Preventive Cardiology Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH

Vice Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Investigator, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Yale New Haven Health System
New Haven, CT

Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Genomic Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, MA

Jelani K. Grant, MD

PGY-6 Cardiology Fellow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Dinesh Kalra, MD, FNLA

Professor & Chief of Cardiology
University of Louisville
Governor, KY Chapter of ACC
Louisville, KY

Carol F. Kirkpatrick, PhD, MPH, RDN, CLS, FNLA

Clinical Scientist
Midwest Biomedical Research
Addison, IL
Adjunct Faculty, Kasiska Division of Health Sciences
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID

Anandita Kulkarni, MD

Medical Director, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Cardio-Obstetrics
Clinical Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University College of Medicine
Baylor Scott & White Health - The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano
Plano, TX

Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN

Assistant Professor
Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Ann M. Liebeskind, MD, FNLA

Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI
Owner, Mobile Health Team Complex Lipids Clinic
Neenah, WI

Kevin C. Maki, PhD, CLS, MNLA

Past President, National Lipid Association
Chief Scientist, Midwest Biomedical Research
Adjunct Professor, Dean’s Eminent Scholar
Indiana University School of Public Health (Bloomington)
Bonita Springs, FL

Darren McGuire, MD, MHSc

Jere H. Mitchell, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Science,
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine with Tenure,
Division of Cardiology; Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lead Physician, Parkland Health Cardiology Clinics,
Deputy Editor, Circulation
Dallas, TX

Taher Modarressi, MD

Cardiometabolic Specialist
Advocare Princeton Cardiometabolic Health
Pennington, New Jersey

Vijay Nambi, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Staff Cardiologist
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Hospital
Houston, TX

Nivedita Patni, MD

Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Kristina S. Petersen, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Maya Rashad, BS, RD, LD

Clinical Dietitian
REACH Clinic
Cook Children’s Medical Center
Fort Worth, TX

Joseph J. Saseen, PharmD, CLS, MNLA

Past President, National Lipid Association
Professor and Vice Chair
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO

Daniel E. Soffer, MD, FNLA

Immediate Past President, National Lipid Association
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Internal Medicine/Clinical Lipidology
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Laurence Sperling, MD

Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology
Founder, Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

James A. Underberg, MD, MS, MNLA

Past President, National Lipid Association
Past-President, American Board of Clinical Lipidology
President, Foundation of the National Lipid Association
Lipidology & Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
NYU Medical School & NYU Center for CV Prevention
Director, Bellevue Hospital Lipid Clinic
New York, NY

Michael J. Wilkinson, MD, FNLA

Associate Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Kaye-Eileen Willard, MD, FNLA

Medical Director Lipid Clinic
Physician Advisor, Ascension SE Wisconsin
Chief of Staff Ascension All Saints
Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff Ascension SE Wisconsin
Racine, WI