Scientific Sessions Faculty

Layla Abushamat, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Section of Cardiovascular Research
Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 
 

Zahid Ahmad, MD, FNLA

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

Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, FNLA

Immediate Past 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

 

Michael Boffa, PhD

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON Canada 

Mary Katherine Cheeley, PharmD, CLS, FNLA

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Grady Health System
Atlanta, GA

Ada Cuevas, MD, MSc, FNLA

Director, Center for Advanced Metabolic Medicine and Nutrition (CAMMYN)
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Finis Terrae University
Santiago, Chile 

Daniel Gaudet, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Community Gene Medicine Center, Director  
University of Montreal 
ECOGENE- 21, Founder 
Montreal, QC Canada 
 

Anne Carol Goldberg, MD, MNLA

Chief Science Officer, National Lipid Association
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Ira J. Goldberg, MD, FNLA

Director, Endocrinology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY

Kevin Hall, PhD


Former Integrative Physiology Section Chief
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Kensington, MD

Joshua H. Hyman, MD


Resident Physician
Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
Yale New Haven Health System
New Haven, Connecticut 

Beth Jackson, MSN, ACNS-BC, CLS, FNLA

Prevention Lipid Clinic
App Manager
Baylor Scott and White
Division of Cardiology 
Temple, TX

Dinesh Kalra, MD, MBA, FNLA

Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Jewish Hospital Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Innovation
Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Lipid Clinic
& Infiltrative Heart Disease Program
Louisville, KY

 

Sander Kersten, PhD

Schleifer Family Professor of Molecular Nutrition
Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

Samuel Klein, MD

Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Marlys L. Koschinsky, PhD, FNLA

Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
Professor, Depart. of Physiology & Pharmacology
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada

Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, MS

Gershoff Professor Nutrition and Policy
Friedman School, Tufts University
Lead Scientist, Diet & Chronic Disease Directive
JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Joe Marcotrigiano, PhD

Senior Investigator
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
Structural Virology Section
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 
 

Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD

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

Steven E.Nissen, MD, MACC

Chief Academic Officer
Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute
Lewis and Patricia Dickey Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Medicine 
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland, OH 

Børge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc

President, European Atherosclerosis Society
Professor and Chief Physician
Copenhagen University Hospital
University of Copenhagen 
 

Brian T. Palmisano, MD, PhD

Instructor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

Jessica M. Peña, MD, MPH, FNLA

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine in Clinical Radiology
Director, HeartHealth Program
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY 

 

Max Petersen, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, & Lipid Research
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Frank Qian, MD, MPH

Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow, PGY-5
Boston Medical Center
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Prof Kausik Ray MD, FMedSci

Immediate Past President, European Atherosclerosis Society
Professor of Public Health
Imperial College London
London, England

Alan T. Remaley, MD, PhD

Section Chief Lipoprotein Metabolism Laboratory
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Anand Rohatgi, MD

Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease
Research Pathway
Division of Cardiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Maya Safarova, MD, PhD, FNLA

Assistant Professor, Consultant 
Co-Director Translational Genomics Course
Co-Chair, Pharmacogenomics Committee
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine 
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Katherine H. Saunders, MD, DABOM

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Co-Founder
FlyteHealth, New Canaan, CT 

Leandro Slipczuk, MD, PhD

Section Head, Clinical Cardiology
Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Director, CV Atherosclerosis and Lipid Disorder Center, Cardiology Division
Associate Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY
 

Daniel E. Soffer, MD, MNLA

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

Kaye-Eileen Willard, MD, FNLA

President, National Lipid Association
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