Dr. Dean Karalis, MD

Dr. Dean Karalis is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as an attending cardiologist at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Karalis is an expert in the field of cardiology and lipidology and has conducted over thirty clinical trials in cardiology, including several landmark trials in the area of cholesterol lowering. He has written over 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts. He has been a guest lecturer on a wide variety of topics related to cardiovascular health, with a focus in the areas of preventive cardiology and lipid lowering. Dr. Karalis serves on several editorial boards and also reviews manuscripts for several leading medical journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Lipidology. Dr. Karalis is a member of several professional associations, including the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association and the National Lipid Association. Since 2005 he has served as a board member for the Northeast Lipid Association. Since 1987 he has served as a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and in 2006 was awarded Diplomate status with the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. After earning his medical doctorate from Albany Medical College, Dr. Karalis completed his residency in The Cornell Hospitals, North Shore University Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He subsequently completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Likoff Cardiovascular Institute at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia.

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• Residency
• Hahnemann University Hospital

• Medical School, 1984
• Albany Medical College
• Albany, NY