Rodrigo Alonso
Rodrigo Alonso, MD, PhD, FNLA, is ISCP Governor for Chile.
Affiliations
Co-Director, Center for Advanced Metabolic Medicine and Nutrition
President, Chilean Atherosclerosis Working Group Corporation
Chair, Federation of the Americas’, International Atherosclerosis Society
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation
International Fellow, National Lipid Association
National Leader FHSC study collaboration from the European Atherosclerosis Society
Biography
He is a specialist in Internal Medicine from the University of Valparaíso. Doctorate in Medicine and Master in Clinical Nutrition from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is Co-Director of the Advanced Center for Metabolic Medicine and Nutrition in Santiago, Chile, where he practices his clinical work as an internist and nutritionist, and completed the World Obesity Federation SCOPE Program Specialist Certification.
He is co-founder of the Spanish Foundation for Familial Hypercholesterolemia. He has been President of the Chilean Atherosclerosis Work Group Corporation (Ateroschile)since 2016; Member of the International Board of the IAS - International Atherosclerosis Society; Member of the Board and Treasurer of the Ibero-American Network of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Association. He is the National Lead for the European Atherosclerosis Society's Familial Hypercholesterolemia collaborative study. International speakers on obesity, dyslipidemia, familial hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, weight management, and cardiovascular risk factors.