Wednesday, December 18, 2013
A Cardiologist who is shaking up the medical and political sectors’ thinking and awareness of familial hypercholesterolaemia in Sao Paulo State and across Brazil. Santos is a Joint Author of Integrated Guidance on the Care of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia from the International FH Foundation and a Member of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
Raul D. Santos, MD, MSC, PhD, is Director of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil and associate professor of the Discipline of Cardiology at the University of São Paulo medical school and scientific advisor in preventive cardiology for the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo.
After completing his training in internal medicine and cardiology Dr. Santos obtained master and PHD degrees in food science at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo. His research interests include lipid metabolism in severe forms of genetic dyslipidemias, especially familial hypercholesterolemia and apolipoprotein A-I deficiencies. In addition he has explored the association of risk factors, ethnicity and kidney function as determinants of subclinical atherosclerosis with the focus on vessel wall calcification.
More recently he has explored the association of liver fat with systemic inflammation and the association of uric acid with atherosclerosis. Dr. Santos collaborates in research studies with the Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory of the Tufts University in Boston, USA and the HJELT Institute, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki in Finland. He has published more than 115 papers in peer-review journals like the Lancet, Atherosclerosis, ATVB, Circulation, Cardiovascular Research, The European Heart Journal, Journal of The American College of Cardiology, Journal of Lipid Research, Journal of Clinical Lipidology and Current Opinion of Lipidology among others. Dr. Santos has participated as “ad hoc” consultant for the State of Sao Paulo Research Support Fund (FAPESP), The American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, The Health Research Council of New Zealand, The Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, for the "Elise-Richter-Program" of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and for the International Symposium on Atherosclerosis (ISA) 2009 in Boston, USA.
He has coordinated and participated in many Brazilian guidelines on dyslipidaemia and atherosclerosis prevention, familial hypercholesterolemia, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity, imaging in atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. He is the past-president of the Department of Atherosclerosis of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, was president of the Latin American chapter of the International Task Force for Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, member of the Prevention Council of the Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention (SAIP), and member at large of the Americas at the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) board of directors 2010-2012 and now the Secretary of international Atherosclerosis Society 2013-2015
He is one of the associate editors of Atherosclerosis and the Journal of Clinical Lipidology and member of the editorial board of the journal Endocrine.
Under the guidance of Raul Santos, Brazil is forming a Foundation for FH Patients.
On the subject of FH,
"Screening is the most important thing about familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). By having your family screened, you’re not helping to treat the disease in one person but in many people at the same time." Dr. Raul D. Santos, Cardiologist, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Watch video (in Portuguese) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeN2rrDUhxw
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