Endocrinologist / Lipidologist
Western University, London, ON
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
Rob Hegele is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.
He is also a staff endocrinologist who cares for >2500 patients at the lipid clinic at University Hospital.
His laboratory discovered the genes that cause >20 human diseases. He was among the first in North America to use 5 medications that are now routinely prescribed to treat high cholesterol or diabetes.
He has published >865 papers, which have been cited >69,000 times in Google Scholar, placing him in the top 1% of highly cited scientists in the world. The website Expertscape.com in 2022 ranked him #1 globally in the area of “hypertriglyceridemia” and #2 for “disorders of lipid metabolism”. He received the 2019 American Heart Association Lyman Duff Award and the 2020 FH Foundation Pioneer Award.
He has co-authored many clinical practice guidelines for cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes. He has trained numerous physicians, medical students and graduate students
Saturday, October 29, 2022
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM EDT