Study Group: Niacin/Lovastatin Prescribers for Hyperlipidemia(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 14
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Clinical Director
NYU Medical Center
Howard Weintraub, MD, FACC, is the Clinical Director of Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at NYU Medical Center. He has been a consultant for several organizations and has been a Cardiologist for the National Football League. Dr. Weintraub has written textbook chapters on evaluation...
Michael Davidson, MD, FACCDirector, Preventive Cardiology
The University of Chicago
Michael Davidson, MD, FACC, is Executive Medical Director at Radiant Research, Director of Preventive Cardiology and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In addition, he is Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Center for Clinical...
Harold Bays, MD, FACPPresident and Medical Director
L-MARC Research Center
Harold Bays, MD, FACE, FACP, is Medical Director and President of Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center (L-MARC), a metabolic clinical research facility that has conducted over 400 phase I-IV clinical trials, including studies of all marketed lipid-altering drug treatments, as well...
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhDAssistant Professor
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Feinberg Cardiovascular Institute in Illinois. His specialties include lipid metabolism, preventive cardiology, electrophysiology and heart failure. Dr. Ardehali's basic science research interest is in the areas of reperfusion injury...
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Dan Streja, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Co-Director of the Lipid Clinic, the Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic and Diabetes Clinic, and the Divisions of Cardiology and Endocrinology at VA Medical Center of West Los Angeles. Dr. Streja has...
Charles Glueck, MDMedical Research Director of Cholesterol Center
Jewish Hospital
Charles Glueck, MD, is the Medical Director of Jewish Hospital Cholesterol Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has expertise in lipids, lipoproteins, interaction of atherosclerosis and thrombosis, thrombosis, human genetics, epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and hematology. Dr Glueck and colleagues...
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