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Study Group: Statin Prescribers (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 56

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Howard Weintraub, MD
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, FACP, President and Medical Director, L-MARC Research CenterHarold Bays, MD, FACP
President 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...

Dan Streja, MD
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, MD, Medical Research Director of Cholesterol Center, Jewish HospitalCharles Glueck, MD
Medical 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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Geographic Location Key In Walk-In Clinic Locations | 01-30-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

It is important to understand that geographic placement of these clinics is important.  I think these clinics will continue to pop up until the industry feels out exactly where the market is.  We are located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, and there are many of these clinics which are...

Expect very dramtic and continued decreases in scripts for vytorin and zetia | 01-28-2008
Analysis of: Schering releases ENHANCE data today | www.tradingmarkets.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

I anticipate vytorin and zetia sales will be down substantial when the IMS numbers come out tommorrow, but that this will be only the beginning of a negative trend for these scripts. I list below several reasons why.

Crestor Trial Timing is Interesting | 01-21-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The announcement the new trial comparing Lipitor to Crestor  is interesting but not unexpected.  It is timed to end near the end of lipitor's patent. A win- which is likely- will certainly help AZN sell their drug against the much cheaper generic lipitor.

Very Interesting Diabetes Data From an Unlikely Source | 01-21-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Impressive data on Ranexa in HGBA1c. The result of a decrease of 0.64 vs baseline and 0.43 vs placebo are at first glance underwhelming.  But a closer looks shows that the results are realy quite impressive

Outsourcing of compassionate use of drugs? | 01-18-2008
Author: Dan Streja, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

The Supreme Court has rejected the use of experimental drugs by the dying patients on the grounds that "The framers (of the US constitution) understood that the pursuit of life is an inalienable right that should not be abridged without due process of law." Over the years our patients with terminal...

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