Adults

Provides comprehensive consultative and on-going care (if desired by referring provider or patient) for adults with all disorders of lipid metabolism. This clinic focuses on:

- All patterns of high cholesterol and high triglycerides.
- Very low lipid levels, particularly HDL-cholesterol below 20 mg/dL or triglycerides below 50 mg/dL posing diagnostic and treatment challenges.
- Lipid Disorders in special populations: extended kindred lacking diagnosis, lipodystrophy, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pregnancy, young adult.
- Severe insulin resistance (using over 300 units of insulin daily), requiring search for rare causes, advanced polypharmacy, or both; with counseling from on-site Certified Diabetes Educators.

Amnon Schlegel, MD, PhD, Director, specialist in Adult Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes.

To set up a consult, refer a patient, or for more information, please contact Jamie Smith.