Santos Raul D

Raul D. Santos, MD, MSC, PhD, is Director of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil and associate professor of the Cardiopneumology Department at the University of São Paulo Medical School. He is also researcher at the Academic Research Organization of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After completing his training in cardiology Dr. Santos obtained master and PHD degrees in food science at the University of Sao Paulo. His research interests include lipid metabolism, severe forms of genetic dyslipidemias, especially familial hypercholesterolemia and HDL deficiency, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, new therapies for dyslipidemia, and imaging in atherosclerosis especially detection of vascular calcification. He has published more than 400 papers in peer-review journals like the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Atherosclerosis, ATVB, Circulation, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Cardiovascular Research, The European Heart Journal, JACC, Journal of Lipid Research, Journal of Clinical Lipidology, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and Current Opinion of Lipidology among others. Dr. Santos has coordinated and participated in many Brazilian and International guidelines on dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis prevention, metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease. He is a former president of the Department of Atherosclerosis of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, and past president of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) (2019-2021). He is a former vice president of the Iberoamerican Familial Hypercholesterolemia network. In addition he is one of the associate editors of Atherosclerosis, the Journal of Clinical Lipidology and the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. He was nominated a highly-cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics in the field of Cross-field in 2021 and 2022.