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Daniel Rader, MD Daniel Rader, MD
Director, Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Lipid Clinic
University of Pennsylvania Health System

Dr. Rader is the Cooper-McClure Professor of Medicine and is Professor of Pathology and Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He is Director of the newly created Clinical and Translational Research Center and Associate Director of Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.  He is also the Director of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Lipid Clinic and the Director of the Lipid-Atherosclerosis Research Unit.  Dr. Rader’s basic research laboratory focuses on genetic and pharmacologic regulation of lipoprotein metabolism and atherosclerosis, and he directs a translational research program focusing on human genetics of lipid disorders and atherosclerosis and novel approaches to treatment of dyslipidemia and regression of atherosclerosis. He has a particular interest in HDL metabolism, factors and genes involved in its regulation, the causal nature of the relationship of HDL metabolism to atherosclerosis, and novel approaches to targeting HDL metabolism and reverse cholesterol transport in the treatment, prevention, and regression of atherosclerosis.

Dr. Rader received his undergraduate degree from Lehigh University and his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.  He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, followed by a year as a Chief Resident.  In 1988 he began a fellowship in lipid metabolism at the Molecular Disease Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, and was subsequently appointed to a staff scientist position.  He was recruited in 1994 to the University of Pennsylvania.

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