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ENDO 09 Annual Meeting

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TRANSLATIONAL - Pharmacogenomics: The Quest for Individualized Therapy

Track : TRANSLATIONAL

Program Code: S58-3

Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009

Time: 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST

SPEAKER :

RM Krauss, MD, Children's Hosp Oakland Res Inst.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Ronald M. Krauss, M.D., is Senior Scientist and Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children�s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Guest Senior Scientist in the Department of Genome Sciences of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California at Berkeley and the Department of Medicine at UCSF. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University with honors and served his internship and residency on the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital. He then joined the staff of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, first as Clinical Associate and then as Senior Investigator in the Molecular Disease Branch. Dr. Krauss is board-certified in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a Fellow of the American Society of Nutrition and the American Heart Association (AHA), and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Atherosclerosis Society. He a member of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, and is founder and past Chair of the AHA Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism. He has received a number of awards including the AHA Scientific Councils Distinguished Achievement Award and he is listed in Who�s Who in America and the World. Dr. Krauss has published more than 350 research articles and reviews on genetic, dietary, and drug effects on plasma lipoproteins and coronary artery disease. In recent years Dr. Krauss� work has focused on interactions of genes with dietary and drug treatments in determining metabolic phenotypes and cardiovascular disease risk.

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Complete Clinical and Translational Meeting Compilation (Online Access + DVD-ROM)