Professor Steven E Nissen

Prof. Steven E. Nissen MD MACC is Chief Academic Officer for the Heart and Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, Lewis and Patricia Dickey Chair and Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. From 2006 to 2019, he served as Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. In 2006-2007 he served as President of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Nissen manages C5R Research, an organization at the Cleveland Clinic that partners with industry in conducting clinical trials. He specializes in lipid-metabolic, diabetes and obesity trials, but has directed trials as study chair for clinical trials in multiple areas of cardiovascular medicine. He does not accept honoraria or other compensation from industry to stay completely independent. In 2007, Time Magazine selected Dr. Nissen as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Beginning in 2015, he was named by Thompson-Reuters as one of the world’s most highly cited physician-scientists.