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• Metabolic medicine

About me

Professor Anthony Wierzbicki is consultant in metabolic medicine/chemical pathology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals and honorary Professor in Cardiometabolic Disease at King’s College London.

His research interests are in the relationship of lipids to atherosclerosis and the role of lipids in peroxisomal diseases. He has been awarded Fellowships of the American Heart Association and of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (USA) for his contributions to atherosclerosis and lipid biology which include 300 publications, 19 book chapters and 1 book.

He was a trustee of HEART-UK (the Cholesterol charity) and was chairman of this charity’s medical and scientific committee. For NICE he has served on technology (2006-9), highly specialised therapies (2013-) and diagnostic appraisal committees (2014-), the Familial Hypercholesterolaemia guideline development group (CG71; 2008-2009) and as chair of the Lipid Modification Guideline Development Group (CG181; 2012-4). He was a writing group member for the International guidelines (2013-14) and the American Heart Association scientific consensus statement on Familial Hypercholesterolemia (2015).

Areas of interest

Hyperlipidaemia; Metabolic medicine; Obesity

Medical secretaries

• Susan Hampson
• Secretarial Department London Bridge Hospital 27 Tooley Street LONDON SE1 2PR
• 020 7234 2893
• 020 7357 8369
• susan.hampson2@hcahealthcare.co.uk