Professor of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Director of Clinical Pharmacology and the Atherosclerosis & Lipid-Apheresis Center. Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Rome School of Medicine and Surgery in Italy. Residency in Internal Medicine and training in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. A fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the National Lipid Association. He was the 2014-2015 president of the International Society for Apheresis. He reviews manuscripts for multiple scientific journals and is the associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Apheresis. Published over 150 peer-reviewed articles/chapters. His research activities include atherosclerosis, familial hypercholesterolemia, Lp(a), Lipid-apheresis, inflammation, dementia, and hemorhelogy. Operates the largest U.S. Lipid-apheresis program.
