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Welcome to the Midwest Lipid Association (MWLA) web page.  I am Janet L. Maxson, PhD, FNP, and am honored to serve as the President of one of the NLA’s five regional chapters.  Our chapter seeks to fulfill the NLA’s mission to “enhance the practice of lipid management in clinical medicine.” It is the members dedicated to, and having expertise in, the management of the complex lipid metabolisms that drives the success of this organization.

From Penn State News: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State, has accepted an invitation to join the Science Board of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Her three-year term on the Science Board will begin on Jan. 1, 2014.

By Jennifer J Brown, PhD, Everyday Health Staff Writer

Matt Ito, PharmD, is the president of the National Lipid Association for a very good reason. He has inherited a dangerously high cholesterol condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH, which affects more than 600,000 people in the United States.