Rodrigo Karlezi MD, PhD, FNLA

Dr. Rodrigo Alonso Karlezi is a specialist in Internal Medicine from the University of Valparaíso. Doctorate in Medicine and Master in Clinical Nutrition from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is Co-Director of the Advanced Center for Metabolic Medicine and Nutrition in Santiago, Chile, where he practices his clinical work as an internist and nutritionist.

From 1997 to June 2014 he worked in the Lipid Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Madrid. From 2014 to February 2020, he worked as a Staff physician in the Nutrition Department at Clínica Las Condes, Santiago de Chile; He was head of the Nutrition Department from 2016 to January 2020. During this period, he was in charge of registering patients with excess weight, and patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.

Dr Alonso was co-founder of the Spanish Foundation for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in 1998 and currently actively collaborates in its activities as a member of its scientific committee. Until 2014, he coordinated the Spanish follow-up study of a familial hypercholesterolemia cohort (SAFEHEART study).

He has been president of the Chilean Atherosclerosis Work Group Corporation (Ateroschile), since 2016. Member of the International Board of the International Atherosclerosis Society. Member of the Board and treasurer of the Ibero-American Network of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Association. He is the National Lead for the European Atherosclerosis Society's Familial Hypercholesterolemia collaborative study. Dr Alonso completed the World Obesity Federation SCOPE Program Specialist Certification. Author and Co-author of numerous articles published in national and international indexed magazines. He has been invited as a speaker at national and international conferences and symposiums on obesity, dyslipidemia, familial hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, weight management, and cardiovascular risk factors.