Robert Dermot Neely BSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPath

Dermot Neely is a Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine and former Clinical Director of Laboratory Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust. He is presently Head of the Newcastle Lipid Clinic based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Chairman of the Lipid Specialists Advisory Group of the North East Cardiovascular Network, and Clinical Lead for the Regional FH Genetic Cascade Testing Programme, launched in 2014.

He is also Director of the Newcastle Supra-Regional Assay Service Cardiovascular Biomarkers and Endocrine Laboratories and a member of the executive group of the Newcastle NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative. Dr. Neely is a founder Trustee of the HEART UK, the Cholesterol Charity, and co-Chairman of the HEART UK Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Guideline Implementation Team (FHIT).