Carl J. Rubenstein, MD Named President-Elect of Southwest Lipid Association

Carl J. Rubenstein, MD was elected to serve as president-elect of the Southwest Lipid Association at the Association’s 2008 Scientific Forum held in Denver, Colorado, July 17-20. This meeting is the largest annual gathering of American lipidologists, healthcare professionals who work with metabolic disorders, cholesterol management, and cardiovascular disease and prevention, in the Southwest.

Dr. Rubenstein is currently serving as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He is a partner in the Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates group and Director of its Lipid-Atherosclerosis-Metabolic Program, and is on the Senior Staff of the Oklahoma Heart Hospital and Mercy Hospital. He joined the full time Cardiology faculty and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 1972 , and switched to private practice in 1983. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and earned his MD from Duke University Medical School where he also did his traininig in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He has been and continues to be involved in numerous clinical research studies.

Dr. Rubenstein was chosen for this honor by the Southwest Lipid Association (SWLA), which is a Chapter of the National Lipid Association (NLA), in recognition of his many professional achievements and his dedication to the NLA. He is a founding board member of SWLA , a 7-state region, and has helped grow the association since its establishment in 2006. He was the first physician in Oklahoma to be a Diplomate of the Americal Board of Clinical Lipidology. He is actively involved in patient care, with a fulltime practice, predominantly working in the area of lipid disorders and related, diseases, he contributes to numerous drug studies and clinical trials, has given many lectures on the subject of lipidology and is active in medical student teaching.