Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Live from the Clinical Lipid Update of the National Lipid Association in Amelia Island, FL, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Robert Kloner, Vice President of Translation at Huntington Medical Research Institutes and Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division of Keck School of Medicine at the Unive…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Live from the Clinical Lipid Update of the National Lipid Association in Amelia Island, FL, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Rhoda Cooper-DeHoff. Dr. Cooper-DeHoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine of the College…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Live from the Clinical Lipid Update of the National Lipid Association in Amelia Island, FL, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dave Dixon, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist and Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Dixon is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Live from the Clinical Lipid Update of the National Lipid Association in Amelia Island, FL, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Eugenia Gianos. Dr. Gianos is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and co-clinical director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at the NYU Schoo…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Patients in lipidolgy clinics sometimes undergo diagnostic workups for mild liver enzyme elevations, and in select cases a diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will be made. How does this diagnosis compare with the more inflammatory alcoholic fatty liver disease, and what roles should the lipidolo…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Like in the United States, Canadian citizens contend with a high pediatric prevelance of lipid disorders, particularly familial hypercholesterolemia. However, perspectives on clinical care and standards public health priorities to address dyslipidemia differ markedly between these two countries. Can America…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Joining Dr. Alan Brown to discuss the pharmacokinetic data behind drug interactions between treatments for complex lipid abnormalities is Dr. Barbara Wiggins, Pharm.D, clinical pharmacy specialist in cardiology at the Medical University of South Carolina and adjunct professor at the South Carolina School of…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Robert Wild, MD, MPH, D.Phil. Recorded live at the recent Annual National Lipid Association meeting, Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Robert Wild to discuss types of dyslipidemia that clinicans may see in women of child bearing age, particularly those using hormonal contraception. The two discuss ways for…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Joyce Ross Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Joyce Ross, nurse practitioner and President of the National Lipid Association. Joyce is a consultative education specialist in Cardiovascular Risk Intervention with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She is the first Nurse Practitioner elected as Pr…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Seth Martin, cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Martin is a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Cen…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Joyce Ross, MSN, CRNP, CS, CLS, FNLA, FPCNA Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Joyce Ross, MSN, CRNP, FNLA, President-Elect of the National Lipid Association. Joyce serves as a consultative education specialist in cardiovascular risk intervention with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Their dis…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton, Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at Penn State and Past President of NLA. Dr. Kris-Etherton reviews the current dietary recommendations for saturated fat for the population at large and for reducing LDL-C levels. The two discuss the evidence to support th…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Steven Nissen, Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the Lerner School of Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic. The two focus on some of the major developments in lipidology today, from roles of intravascular ultrasound to updates in …

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Harold Bays, MD, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Harold Bays, President of the Southeast Lipid Association and President of the Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerotic Research Center in Louisville, KY. Dr. Bays led a novel educational effort to provide an annual summary of clinical lipidology to r…

Host: Patrice L Basanta-Henry, MD, MHSc, FACOG Host Dr. Patrice Basanta Henry welcomes Dr Nzinga Harrison, Addiction Medicine & Psychiatrist, Campaign Psychiatrist for Let's Get Mentally Fit!, and, the CMO of ANKA Behavioral Health Incorporated. Dr. Harrison will discuss the importance of non-pyschiatric clinicians in recoginizing mentail illne…

Host: Harold Bays, MD, FNLA Dr. Harold Bays welcomes Dr, Alan Remaley, clinical pathologist and Section Chief of the Lipoprotein Metabolism Section in the Cardiopulmonary Branch of the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD. Their discussion centers on LDL cholesterol from a variety of little-known aspects: its history as a biomar…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Allan Sniderman, MD Risk is calculated by a variety of algorithms, all of which produce an estimate for that individual based on age, gender, cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking history. The estimate is critical to clinical decision-making, but how accurate is it? Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Medication Adherence: is it the Achilles Heel in your therapies for patients with dyslipidemia? Dr. Lynne Braun, nurse practitioner in the Preventive Cardiology Center and the Heart Center for Women, and Professor in the Department of Adult Health Nursing at the Rush College of Nursing in Chicago, targets t…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Peter Jones, Associate Professor of Medicine and Atherosclorosis/Lipidology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. They review special populations in the treatment of dyslipidemia, including Asians, women, elderly patients, and the immune-compromised. Supported by an Educa…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown is joined by Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand, Professor at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Ferdinand reviews the etiologies, diagnostic challenges, and management considerations for selective cardiac health…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Joyce Ross, MSN, CRNP, CS, CLS, FNLA, FPCNA One of the most recurrent questions that cardiologists and lipidologists face in daily practice is how to best approach the elderly patient with dyslipidemia. Joining Dr. Alan Brown for special considerations in this population and guideline-based recommend…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Don Wilson, Endocrinologist at Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Wilson will review dyslipidemia in children and adolescent patients. Key points of their discussion will cover the association between abnormal lipid levels in children and an increased…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA In this session of Lipid Luminations, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Merle Myerson, founder and director of the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program, Lipid Clinic, Pre-Exercise Heart Screening Program, and Cardiology Section/Institute for Advanced Medicine (HIV) at Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Si…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Janet Wright, MD Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services, with several key partners, launched the Million Hearts national public-private initiative. Million Hearts aims to prevent one million heart attacks and s…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA An old clinical dogma in OB/GYN was that dyslipidemia during pregnancy wouldn't have any long term implications on the developing fetus because of short exposures at 9 months. This has since been shown to be untrue. What health issues surface in children whose mothers experienced abnormally elevated lipid l…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA As many as 25% of patients taking statins may experience side effects. How should clinicians respond to the broad spectrum of side effects and variable severities reported? Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. John Guyton, Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Duke University S…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA A paradigm shift in the management of lipid disorders has been witnessed of late based on evidence reviews by the AHA and the ACC. Where the clinical dogma once focused on targeting specific lipoproteins, clinicians are now trending toward using appropriate dosages of statins for lowering non-HDL cholestero…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA What's the evidence for LDL and other non-HDL targets for primary and secondary prevention of heart disease? What are the comparative benefits versus toxicities of all lipid-lowering medications in clinical use? Addressing these and other questions from the standpoing of recent NLA recommendations is Kevin …

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Carl Orringer, MD, FACC, FNLA What are some of the causes of high triglycerides? What is the biggest health risk? And, for these patients, at what level is the risk greater for developing pancreatitis and coronary artery disease? Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Carl Orringer, Associate Professor of …

Guest: Kevin C. Maki, PhD, FNLA, CLS Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA At the most recent National Lipid Association (NLA) meeting, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Kevin Maki, PhD, FNLA, CLS, Chief Science Officer for Midwest Center for Metabolic and Cardiovascular Research and Adjunct Faculty position in Biostatistics and Applied Epidemiology…

Guest: Anne Goldberg, MD Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown is joined by Anne Goldberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and a member of the ACC/AHA Blood Cholesterol Guidelines Panel. Dr. Goldberg will provide a review of the panel assembled by National Heart, Lung, and Bloo…

Guest: Kevin C. Maki, PhD, FNLA, CLS Guest: Carl Orringer, MD, FACC, FNLA Guest: Harold Bays, MD, FNLA Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Matthew Ito, PharmD, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown is joined by an expert panel to discuss the NLA's latest draft document that will serve as recommendations to clinicians for the management of patients …

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Is there a patient age at which statin therapy should be discontinued? Likewise, what does the current evidence tell us about initiating vs not initiating statin therapy in older patients? Joining Lipid Luminations to discuss these and other important questions is Dr. W. Virgil Brown, Charles Howard Candler…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Joining host Dr. Alan Brown is Dr. John Guyton, Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Pathology of the Division of Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism at Duke University School of Medicine. Their discussion will focus on data and results from HPS-2 THRIVE, a large-scale study comparin…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Health information technologies have evolved dramatically from simplistic documentation devices early on to sophisticated drivers of quality patient care today. This emergence is having a particularly positive effect on treatment for dyslipidemia. Joining host Dr. Alan Brown to reflect on a recent NLA manus…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Marc Hamilton, Professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA. Their convesation focuses on the cardiometabolic consequences of lengthy sitting times, such as in people with "desk job careers."

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Joining host Dr. Alan Brown is Michael B. Bottorff, Pharm.D., Professor and Chair in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at South College School of Pharmacy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. Bottorff will be reviewing generic medications, from manufacturing processes to approval measures.…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Speaking with host Dr. Alan Brown on the state of genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is Dr. Joshua W. Knowles, MD, PhD, Instructor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University and Attending Physician of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Familial Hypercholester…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown is joined by Dr. Bart Duell, director of the Lipid Disorders Clinic at the Oregon Health and Sciences University and one of the top winners in the NLA Abstracts program, to discuss research updates in Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH).

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Postprandial hypertriglyceridemia occurs when the rapid absorption of dietary fat (in the form of chylomicron triglycerides) overwhelms the body's ability to clear plasma triglyceride. In its most severe form, postprandial hypertriglyceridemia can lead to chylomicronemia and a greatly increased risk of acut…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown is joined by Dr. Thomas Dayspring, Director of Cardiovascular Education for the Foundation for Health Improvement and Technology in Richmond, VA and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the UMDNJ - NJ Medical School. He is also a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and th…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Daniel J. Rader, Cooper-McLure Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Chief of the Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Their discussion focuses on the clinical diagnosis, genetic complexit…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Dr. Harold Bays, Chair for the National Lipid Association's expert panel on Adiposity, Obesity, and Dyslipidemia, discusses with host Dr. Alan Brown the panel's consensus statement published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology.

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Obesity is associated with systemic inflammation and oxidative stress, the leading steps towards development of atherosclerosis. Myloperoxidase (MPO) mediated oxidative damage of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) leads to a dysfunctional HDL which likely becomes pro-atherogenic. But, what happens in our adoles…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Joining Dr. Alan Brown is Revathi Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, a general cardiology fellow at NYU and winner of the NLA Young Investigator Competition. Dr. Balakrishnan's research, titled "Prevalence of unrecognized prediabetes, diabetes and metabolic syndrome in patients undergoing non-urgent PCI," found that ne…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA There may be something unique about the avocado, far beyond its monosaturated fat content. Li Wang, graduate student at Penn State University and winner of the NLA Young Investigator Award, investigated this notion with a clinical study monitoring the effects of eating one avocado every day on risk factors …

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan Brown is joined by David Tehrani, MS, a medical student at the University of California - Irvine School of Medicine and winner of the NLA's Young Investigator Competition for his research into the negative impact of inflammation on HDL's known cardioprotective effects. Tune in for new understa…

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Rebecca S. Reeves, DrPH, RD, FADA On this new edition of Lipid Lumoinations, host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Rebecca Reeves, adjunct Assistant Professor of The University of Texas School of Public Health. Dr. Reeves will discuss the guidleines for children and adolescents as recommended by the Dieta…

Guest: Robert Wild, MD, MPH, D.Phil. Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA What are the conditions associated with dyslipidemia pre-pregnancy that put women at greater risk for complications? What is the long term effect of having an obstetrical complication as CVD Risk for the mother and fetus? And, what is the major concern for hypertriglycer…

Guest: Kevin C. Maki, PhD, FNLA, CLS Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Host Dr. Alan S. Brown is joined by Kevin C. Maki, PhD, FNLA, Chief Science Officer of Biofortis Clinical Research. Dr. Maki will review obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus as they are all insulin resistant states and are often characterized by ather…