William C Cromwell, MD
Medical Director – Division of Lipoprotein Disorders
Presbyterian Center for Preventive Cardiology
Presbyterian Cardiovascular Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Diplomate – American Board of Clinical Lipidology
Dr. Cromwell received his doctoral degree in medicine from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed residency training at the Trover Clinic Foundation in Madisonville, Kentucky were he received one of twenty national Mead Johnson Graduate Fellowships. Subsequently, he completed postgraduate work in Lipid Disorders at the Washington University School of Medicine Lipid Research Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
From 1991 to 1994 Dr. Cromwell served as Head of the Division of Lipid Disorders and Medical Director of The Lipid Treatment Program at the Trover Clinic in Madisonville, Kentucky. He moved to Central Florida in 1994 to begin work with The Florida Lipid Associates serving as Medical Director of The Lipid Consultation Program in Lake Wales, Florida and Medical Director of The Florida Lipid Institute in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Cromwell continued his work in Florida until October 1999 when he accepted a joint position as Chief Medical Officer of LipoScience, Inc. (formerly LipoMed, Inc.) and Medical Director of The Lipoprotein and Metabolic Disorders Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dr. Cromwell maintained these positions from October 1999 to January 2005 at which time he accepted the position of Medical Director of the Division of Lipoprotein Disorders at the Presbyterian Center for Preventive Cardiology in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
In addition to these positions, Dr.Cromwell is a founding diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, member of the National Lipid Association (NLA), and core faculty member of the NLA Masters in Lipidology Advanced Training and Board Review Course. He is also a member of the Southeastern Lipid Association, Florida Lipid Foundation, American Heart Association Council on Atherosclerosis, and the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism. Dr. Cromwell has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of lipoprotein disorders and physical chemistry.
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