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Current position | |
1998 - | Chief of Medicine - Atlanta Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
1991 - | Charles Howard Candler Professor of Internal Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
Past position | |
1987 - 1991 | President of the Medlantic Research Foundation, Washington, USA |
1978 - 1987 | Joseph Lowe and Louis Price Professor of Medicine - Director of the Division of Arteriosclerosis and Metabolism, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
1970 - 1978 | Assistant and Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Lipid Research Clinics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
1966 - 1969 | Clinical Associate - National Heart and Lung Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA |
Scientific training | |
Undergraduate degree in physics and chemistry - Emory University (Phi Beta Kappa) | |
M.D. - Yale University (Alpha Omega Alpha), CT, USA | |
Internal Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA | |
Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism –Yale, New Haven Hospital, CT, USA | |
Professional Associations | |
1991 -1992 | President of the National AHA |
1998 | Chairman of the Emory University Faculty Council President of the Senate of Emory University |
1998 - 1999 | President of the Southeast Lipid Association |
2002 - 2004 | President of the National Lipid Association |
2007 | President of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology President Elect of the International Atherosclerosis Society |
Awards | |
1985 | Humboldt Fellowship to study - University of Cologne, Germany |
1987 | Distinguished Professor of the Year (The Mt. Sinai Department of Medicine) |
1996 | “Gold Heart Award”, by the American Heart Association |
1999 | Master Physician Award, American College of Physicians |
2000 | Bruce Logue Award, Fulton County Heart Association |
Research | |
While at the NIH, working with Drs. Donald Fredrickson and Robert Levy, he isolated and characterized for the first time three of the nine proteins involved in the structure of the plasma lipoproteins. This group of so called “C” apolipoproteins proved to be very important in regulating the levels of the blood triglycerides and cholesterol. As Director of Lipid Research Clinic at the University of California (San Diego, CA, USA), he continued research on the function of the lipoproteins in carrying cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. He and his collaborators helped define the role of the lipase enzymes in breaking down triglycerides so that they could be removed from the blood stream by the various organs of the body. His studies also helped understand how various dietary changes and medications alter the metabolism of the lipoproteins to correct high levels of cholesterol. While in San Diego, he was one of the Principal Investigators of the Lipid Research Clinics Primary Prevention Trial which proved that cholesterol reduction prevented first heart attacks in hypercholesterolemic men (1984) |