Study Group: Physicians who Treat Hypercholesterolemia in the U.S.(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 231
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Professor of Medicine
Finch University of Health Science-Chicago Medical School
Rohit Arora, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASCI, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Chicago Medical School, Illinois. He is also the Chairman of Cardiology and Associate Chairman of Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Arora is also Chief of Cardiology at the North...
Division Head of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Neurobiology at Northwestern University in Illinois and Division Head of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. He is also the Director of a federally-funded basic research program on obesity, diabetes, and lipid...
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...
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...
Cardiologist
NYU Medical Center
Daniel Fisher, MD, FACC, FACP, is a Cardiologist at NYU Medical Center. He has a private practice in Cardiology and specializes in non-invasive cardiology. Dr. Fisher is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Nuclear Cardiology. He has lectured frequently on such topics as...
Owner
Joshua M. Feuer, MD
Joshua Feuer, MD, FACC, is a board certified Cardiologist in private practice in Santa Barbara, California. He also serves as a Consulting Cardiologist at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Dr. Feuer specializes in aggressive preventive cardiology and cardiovascular risk assessment, and reduction. He has...
John Litton Jr., MDChief Executive Officer and President
Litton Family Medicine, PC
J. Scott Litton, Jr., MD, FAAFP, is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Litton Family Medicine, PC in Pennington Gap, VA. He provides inpatient services and also serves as the Medical Director of the Center for Wound Care at Lee Regional Medical Center. Dr. Litton serves as a Faculty member...
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| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Physicians who Treat Hypertension (US) | 664 |
| Heart Failure Specialists (US) | 849 |
| General Cardiologists (US) | 1333 |
| Niaspan Prescribers for Raising HDL | 142 |
| Non-Electrophysiologist Cardiologists (US) | 832 |
| Statin Prescribers (US) | 54 |
| Zocor Prescribers | 67 |
GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
1.Hypertriglyceridemia causes pancreatitis 2.Most PCP, endocrinologists, and cardiologists are not effectively treating high triglycerides, and may make it worse by recommending a low fat = high carb diet 3.Accord data with 75% reduction in death, and patients desparate for wt loss will continue to...
Most hospitals are financially built on their heart programs. The "agressive" medical arm is conservative by our standards yet as good as stents at far less cost. If this was truly pursued by large companies with TPA insurance plans, their overall cost would drop with large savings in healthcare costs....
The ACCORD trial results were no suprise to our diabetes practice. We have been heavy users of Byetta since launch in 2005, and have seen the same results in our population of > 2000 diabetics with over 700 on Byetta. Since the Simpson et al study in the Canadian Journal of Medicine (CMAJ 2006;174(2):169-74)...
The recent finding that Byetta therapy decreased mortality in the ACCORD study needs to be replicated in studies designed to address that point. Even if it is replicated and statistically significant, it probably will not be true for the widely anticipated once weekly extended formulation...
Given the economic pressures on patients, they are now more likely to ask for generic medications than they were in the past. Given that there are generic versions of several classes of medications, physicians such as me are more likely to comply with a patient's request for a generic than in...
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