Journal of
Clinical Lipidology
Official Journal of the National Lipid Association
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
John R. Guyton, MD
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Section Specialty: Epidemiology, Clinical
trials, and Preventive Cardiology
William E. Boden, MD, FACC, FAHA
New England Healthcare System Boston,
MA
Section Specialty: Lipidology
Eliot A. Brinton, MD, FAHA, FNLA
Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research
Salt Lake City, UT
Section Specialty: Lipoprotein Metabolism
and Clinical Lipidology
W. Virgil Brown, MD
Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Section Specialty: Obesity, Nutrition,
Atherosclerosis, and Dislipidemias
Ada Cuevas, MD, MSc
Center for Advanced Metabolic Medicine
and Nutrition (CAMMYN)
Santiago, Chile
Section Specialty: Clinical Trials
Michael Davidson, MD
The University of Chicago Pritzker
School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Section Specialty:
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dennis DeSilvey, MD
Blue Hill Cardiovascular Medicine
Blue Hill, ME
Section Specialty: Pharmacotherapy,
Cardiometabolic Disease, and Health
Outcomes Research
Dave L. Dixon, PharmD, FACC, FCCP, FNLA,
BCPS, BCACP, CDCES, CLS
Virginia Commonwealth University School
of Pharmacy
Richmond, VA
Section Specialty: Endocrinology
and diabetes, Preventive Cardiology
P. Barton Duell, MD
OHSU, Knight Cardiovascular Institute
Portland, OR
MANAGING EDITOR
Diane Dunham Drexler
jcleditorialoffice@gmail.com
Section Specialty: Endocrinology, Section Specialty: Pathology, Microbiology,
Metabolism and Diabetes and Immunology
James Falko, MD W. Gray (Jay) Jerome, PhD
University of Colorado, Division Vanderbilt University
of Endocrinology, Metabolism Nashville, TN
and Diabetes
Denver, CO Section Specialty: Lipidology, Atheroclerosis
Peter H. Jones, MD
Section Specialty: Hypertriglyceridemia, Baylor College of Medicine
Genetic Lipid Disorders, Houston, TX
Cardiometabolic Risk
Daniel Gaudet, MD, PhD Section Specialty: Risk Assessment,
Université de Montréal High-risk Populations, Guidelines,
Chicoutimi (Québec), Canada Atherosclerosis Imaging
Dinesh Kalra, MD, FNLA, FACC, FSCCT, FSCMR
Section Specialty: Cardiology University of Louisville
Edward A. Gill, MD, FASE, FAHA, FACC, Louisville, KY
FACP, FNLA
University of Washington School Section Specialty: Women and Heart disease,
of Medicine Prevention Cardiology, Nutrition
Seattle, WA Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, CLS
Columbia University
Section Specialty: Basic Lipid New York, NY
Physiology, Lipolytic Enzymes
Ira Goldberg, MD Section Specialty: Endocrinology
Columbia University Medicine and Metabolism
New York, NY Ronald M. Krauss, MD
CHORI and UCSF
Section Specialty: DNA analysis, Oakland, CA
Dyslipoproteinemia,
Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Specialty: Nutrition Science/Dietetics
Robert A. Hegele, MD Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD
Western University Penn State University
London, ON, Canada University Park, PA
Section Specialty: Clinical trials, Familial Section Specialty: Cardiac Rehabilitation,
hypercholesterolemia, LDL apheresis Metabolism, Nutrition, Lifestyle
Linda C. Hemphill, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Ralph La Forge, MSc
Massachusetts General Hospital Duke University Medical Center
Boston, MA Durham, NC
Section Specialty: Pharmacology, Clinical Section Specialty: Nutrition, Dietary
Lipidology, Familial hypercholesterolemia intervention, Epidemiology
Matthew K. Ito, PharmD, FCCP, FNLA, CLS Benoît Lamarche, PhD, FAHA
OSU/OHSU College of Pharmacy Université Laval
Portland, OR Québec, QC, Canada
Section Specialty: Epidemiology, Disease Section Specialty: Diabetes,
Prevention, Clinical Trials Lipidology and Nephrology
Terry A. Jacobson, MD, FACP, FAHA Edgar V. Lerma, MD
Emory University School of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago
Atlanta, GA College of Medicine/Associates
in Nephrology, S.C.
Chicago, IL
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Official Journal of the National Lipid Association

Section Specialty: Diabetes, Section Specialty: Atherosclerosis and Section Specialty: Cardiovascular Outcomes
Immunology Inflammation and Guidelines
Maria Lopes-Virella, MD, PhD Alan T. Remaley, MD, PhD Salim S. Virani, MD PhD
Medical University of SC National Institutes of Health Baylor College of Medicine
Charleston, SC Bethesda, MD Houston, TX

Section Specialty: Epidemiology Section Specialty: Familial Section Specialty: Pharmacology

Rachel H. Mackey, PhD, MPH, FAHA
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Section Specialty: Pediatric Lipidology,
Genetics, Lipoproteins
Mary J. Malloy, MD
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Section Specialty: Cardiovascular Risk
Assessment, Dyslipidemia
Seth Shay Martin, MD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Section Specialty: Cardiovascular Disease,
Lipid Disorders, Vascular Medicine
Jorge Plutzky, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Section Specialty: Clinical Lipidology,
Advanced Lipid Protein Testing,
Women’s Health and Menopause
Gregory S. Pokrywka, MD, FACP,
FNLA, FASPC, NCMP
Baltimore, MD
Hypercholesterolemia, Imaging in Gerald F. Watts, DSc, PhD, MD,
Atherosclerosis, Preventive Cardiology FRACP, FRCP
Raul D. Santos, MD, MSC, PhD University of Western Australia
University of Sao Paulo Medical School Perth, Australia
Hospital Sao Paulo, Brazil
Section Specialty: Cardiology, Internal Medicine,
Section Specialty: Clinical Lipidology, Diabetology
Familial Hypercholesterolemia Anthony S. Wierzbicki, DM, DPhil, FRCPath
Daniel Soffer MD, FNLA, FACP Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals,
Perelman School of Medicine, Dept of Metabolic Medicine/Chemical Pathology
University of Pennsylvania London, UK
Philadelphia, PA
Section Specialty: Women’s Health
Section Specialty: Lipidology, Preventive Robert A. Wild, MD, PhD, MPH
Cardiology Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center
Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD Oklahoma City, OK
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Peoria, IL Section Specialty: Clinical lipidology; ASCVD risk
stratification; high risk populations; impact of clin-
Section Specialty: Lipidology ical trials on practice
Gloria Lena Vega, PhD Kaye-Eileen Willard MD FNLA
University of Texas Southwestern Ascension Healthcare SE Wisconsin
Medical Center Racine WI
Dallas, TX
Section Specialty: Pediatric Lipid Management
Section specialty: Lipidology,
Don P. Wilson, MD
Heart Failure, Diabetes and
Cook Children’s Medical Center
Cardiorenal Connectome
Fort Worth, TX
Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD
Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and Institute
University of Arizona
Phoenix, AZ

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EDITORIAL BOARD
Catherine J. McNeal, MD, PhD Suzanne Shugg, DNP, FNLA
Nicola Abate, MD, FNLA
Temple, TX West Orange, NJ
Galveston, TX
Michael Miller, MD, FACC, FAHA Donald A. Smith, MD, MPH
Zahid Ahmad, MD
Baltimore, MD New York, NY
Dallas, TX
Patrick M. Moriarty, MD, FACP, FACC Allan D. Sniderman,
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Kansas City, KS MD, FRCP(C), FRSC
Florence, KY
Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Pamela Morris, MD
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Detroit, MI Lawrence Sperling, MD
Charleston, SC
Atlanta, GA
Robert Block, MD, MPH, FNLA
Anne N. Nafziger, MD, MHS
Rochester, NY James H. Stein, MD
Albany, NY
Michael B. Boffa, PhD Madison, WI
Stephen Nash, MD, FACC, FAHA
London (Ontario), Canada
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Carl Orringer, MD, FNLA
Chicago, IL
Miami, FL
Paul D. Thompson, MD
John H. Contois, PhD Hartford, CT
Shailesh B. Patel, BM, ChB,
Portland, ME
DPhil, FRCP
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William C. Cromwell, MD Milwaukee, WI
New York, NY
Raleigh, NC
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