The WSU Department of Internal Medicine recently opened a Lipid Clinic and Preventive Cardiovacular Program. The programs seek to assist patients in understanding and modifying the risks for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by working with a dedicated team of staff physicians, nurses and dieticians.

The team will work with patients to formulate individualized intervention plans featuring lifestyle modification and appropriate pharmacological interventions. The Lipid Clinic will offer comprehensive lipid management services, including state-of-the-art extended lipid and lipoprotein sub-fraction analyses as well as the determination of other markers of vascular inflammation associated with coronary atherosclerosis.

In collaboration with the Detroit Medical Center, coronary CT angiography and Electronic Beam CT scanning of the coronary arteries will be available to determine calcification as a marker of early coronary disease for further classification and management of vascular disease risk.

The programs were developed by Paulos Berhanu, M.D., WSU professor of medicine and director of the Comprehensive Diabetes and Metabolic Center, and Nicholas Kerin, M.D., WSU professor of medicine and interim chief of the Division of Preventive Cardiology.

For referrals, including adolescent patients who may be suffering from lipid and lipoprotein abnormalities, please call the University Internal Medicine Specialists appointment desk at (313) 745-4525.