Raul D. Santos MD, PhD, MSc

Raul D. Santos, MD, MSC, Ph.D., is Director of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and associate professor of the Cardiopulmonary Department at the University of Sao Paulo medical school. He is also a researcher at the Academic Research Organization at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After completing his training in cardiology Dr. Santos obtained master's and Ph.D. 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, and imaging in atherosclerosis especially detection of vascular calcification.

Dr. Santos has published more than 380 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, 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 is the current president of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) (2019-2021). He is the 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.