Lipid Luminations

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 Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.

Dr. Martin discusses the pursuit of lipid profiles on a national level, utilizing Big Data from health records and clinical trials to develop better understandings of cardiovascular risk and theraputic efficacies.

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 discussion focuses on lipid management to reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk in elderly patient populations. Thhis interview was recorded live at the National Lipid Association in San Diego, California for the 2016 Spring Clinical Lipid Update.

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 these dietary recommendations and optimal replacement nutrients for dietary saturated fatty acids (SFAs).

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 clinical drug trials to perspectives on past and present guideline recommendations.

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 readers of the Journal of Clinical Lipidology. With insightful commentaries of value to lipidologists and generalists alike, the annual summary is expected to pave new ground in the ongoing effort to keep clinicians up to date with the field.

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 illness, those specific illnesses where there is a higher chance of comorbidity of psychiatric illness, and best practices & tools avaialble for health care providers.

Guest: Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH

High levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is the most common form of dyslipidemia and is a significant risk factor for CVD. Statin therapy has long been the mainstay for managing dyslipidemia; however, only 48% of adults with elevated LDL-C levels have received lipid-lowering therapy, and only 33% have reached the specified guideline goal. In recent years, pharmacologic inhibition of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) has been investigated for its potential as a lipid-lowering therapy and 2 monoclonal antibodies that inhibit PCSK9 have recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.The goal of this activity is to provide information for the clinician that will guide optimal, educated, and appropriate use of PCSK9 inhibitors for managing elevated LDL.

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 biomarker for disease status, the ways in which it gets specifically measured, and the rise of lipid-altering pharmacotherapies to combat excessive LDL levels.

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. Allan Sniderman, Edwards Professor of Cardiology at McGill University, to discuss why we should pay more attention to the causes, and less to the risks, of cardiovascular disease.

Supported by an Educational Grant from AstraZeneca.

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 three critical barriers to lipid medication adherance: weak patient-provider relationships, health illiteracy, and poor health care transitions after hospital discharge.

Supported by an Educational Grant from AstraZeneca.