About Robert A Hegele MD, FRCPC
Dr. Hegele, MD, is Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Western University, and director of the London Regional Genomics Centre at Robarts Research Institute. He holds the Wolfe Distinguished Medical Research Chair, the Edith Schulich Vinet Chair in Human Genetics and the Blackburn Chair in Cardiovascular Research.
He cares for more than 2000 patients in his lipid clinic at University Hospital. His laboratory discovered the molecular genetic basis of 25 human diseases. He has authored more than 600 papers and is listed in the ISI database of the top 1% of highly cited scientists in the world.
He has contributed to national clinical practice guidelines for cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes, and to international guidelines on familial hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia in addition to training many physicians, medical students and graduate students.
