Professor Raul Santos
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None declaredDirector of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Raul D Santos, is Director of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil and associate professor of the Department of Cardiopneumology at the University of São Paulo medical school.
He also holds a researcher position at the Academic Research Organization (ARO) of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
His research interests include lipid metabolism, severe forms of genetic dyslipidemias, especially familial hypercholesterolemia and HDL deficiency, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, imaging in atherosclerosis especially detection of vascular calcification and development of new lipid modification therapies.
He is the President (2019-2021) of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) and the vice president of the Iberoamerican Familial Hypercholesterolemia Network.
