Kern Lipid Conference 2026

Board Members

Conferences are organized and conducted under the guidance of a Board of Directors, whose members consist of regular attendees and are recognized investigators in various aspects of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. The current active Board of Directors consists of:

Moshe Levi, MD (President)	Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Brestoff, MD, PhD (Vice President-Academia)	Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Roger Newton, PhD (Vice President-Industry)	Espervita Therapeutics, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Margrit Schwarz, PhD (Vice President-Industry)	BlackWay Biosciences, Switzerland
Kimberley Bruce, PhD (Secretary/Treasurer)	University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
Stuart Robinson, MD (Conference Historian)	St. Joseph Hospital, Newport Beach, California
Nada Abumrad, PhD Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD Robert C. Bauer, PhD Jacqueline Beaudry, PhD J. Mark Brown, PhD Mete Civelek, PhD L. Ashley Cowart, PhD Clair Crewe, PhD Robert H. Eckel, MD Ebru Erbay, MD, PhD Rebecca Haeusler, PhD Robert N. Helsley PhD Jay Horton, MD Ali Javaheri MD, PhD Samuel Klein, MD Allison Kohan PhD Philipp Scherer, PhD Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD John Stafford, MD, PhD Gregory Steinberg, PhD	Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Columbia University, New York, New York University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio UCLA, Los Angeles, California Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado UCLA, Los Angeles, California Columbia University, New York, New York University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio McMaster University, Ontario, Canada