Podcasts

S7E12: Lipid Insights × The Tell-Tale Heart: Lipid Management in 2026

Guest-Host

Craig J. Beavers, PharmD
Cardiovascular Clinical Pharmacist/Vice President of Operations/Cardiovascular ServicelineLeader, Baptist Health Kentucky
Adjust Associate Professor, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Guest

Michael J. Wilkinson, MD, FACC, FNLA
Associate Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
UC San Diego

Two podcasts. One conversation. A meeting of minds at the intersection of lipidology and cardiovascular pharmacy.

In this special collaboration episode, Lipid Insights joins forces with The Tell-Tale Heart: The Pharmacist’s Cardiovascular Digest for a wide-ranging discussion on where lipid management stands today and where it’s heading. Host Craig J. Beavers, PharmD sits down with NLA Executive Council Chair Michael J. Wilkinson, MD, FNLA for a conversation that every cardiovascular clinician and pharmacist needs to hear right now. 

The discussion spans the 2026 Multi-Society Dyslipidemia Guideline and what implementation actually looks like in practice; the current state of Lp(a) science and what clinicians should be doing about it today; the cardiovascular risk implications of inflammatory diseases and how they should shape patient management; and the return to threshold-based lipid targets. 

A timely and clinically rich conversation that reflects the best of what happens when two communities dedicated to cardiovascular health sit down together.

Watch the video version on YouTube