The Lipid Panel

Date: January 28, 2025; 8:00 PM Eastern

Topic: Diabetes and ASCVD Risk

Co-chairs: Guy Mintz, MD, FNLA
                    Merle Myerson, MD, EdD, FACC, FNLA

Presenter: Gisella Carranza-Leon, MD

Moderator: Eliot Brinton, MD, FNLA

Panelist(s): Kathleen Wyne, MD, PhD, FNLA

The National Lipid Association’s (NLA) Lipid Panel is a monthly one-hour web-based interactive educational session at 8:00 pm (EST) on Tuesday nights from September to June.  CME/CE credit is offered.  Sessions feature a moderator, case presenter, and 1-2 discussants.

The objective of the Lipid Panel is to provide an educational session similar to that of institution-based clinical conferences. Sessions cover a wide range of lipid and cardiometabolic topics and seeks to provide clinicians with practical insights and up-to-date clinical information.

The NLA is the professional medical organization in the United States dedicated to enhance the practice of lipid management in clinical medicine. More recently, the NLA has expanded to include a focus on cardiometabolic health, related to their mission in prevention of cardiovascular disease.  The NLA prides itself on being a multi-disciplinary organization.  Members and leaders within the organization come from many areas of clinical medicine including physicians, nurses, nurse-practitioners, physician assistants, dieticians, and pharmacists. 

Activities include annual scientific sessions, issuing guidelines and other statements on clinical care, evening web-based seminars, and development of patient and clinician educational materials.  The NLA provides a path for certification as a lipid specialist with professional recognition and mentored programs for trainees, some with financial support.   The official publication, The Journal of Clinical Lipidology is well respected with an impact factor of 5.365.

The NLA, a 501(c)(6) non-profit, was created out of the success established by the Southeast Lipid Association (SELA), which was formed in 1997 and now has five regional chapters in additional to national leadership and staff.