Eliot A. Brinton

Dr. Brinton obtained his M.D. degree at The University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, did his Internal Medicine residency at Duke University, Durham, NC, and his fellowship in Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition at The University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Dr. Brinton has served on the faculty of The Rockefeller University, Wake Forest University, the University of Arizona and the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Lipidology and is Past-President and founding board member of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. Dr. Brinton has authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications in various journals, including Science, Circulation, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, former Assistant Editor of the Journal of Obesity, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and Past-Chair of Clinical Lipidology Committee of the AHA. He served as President of the Pacific Lipid Association, and he is a fellow and founding Board Member of the National Lipid Association (NLA). He is also a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology (ACE). Dr. Brinton is the recipient of several scientific awards including the 2012 Robert I. Levy Award of the Kinetics and Metabolism Society and the 2021 Paul Dudley White International Scholar of the AHA. Dr. Brinton is currently President of the Utah Lipid Center in Salt Lake City.