Ian Neeland (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Ian Neeland (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Ian J. Neeland, MD, is Director of the University Hospitals (UH) Center for Cardiovascular Prevention, Director of the Translational Science Unit, and Co-Director of the Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular-Metabolic Disease (CINEMA program), Senior Attending for UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he holds the inaugural McCamon Family Chair in Cardiovascular Excellence in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a general and preventive cardiologist and clinical investigator with expertise in obesity, diabetes, and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Neeland earned his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He completed a residency in internal medicine and was chief medical resident at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and then completed a combined clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He also holds a certificate in translational medicine from Emory's Laney Graduate School. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, he also holds a subspecialty certification in adult echocardiography from the National Board of Echocardiography.

Dr. Neeland is an active clinical and translational investigator with funding from the National Institutes of Health and industry. He has published over 190 scholarly articles, several book chapters, and delivered many national and international invited lectures. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology and serves on several national committees with the American Heart Association, including as Immediate Past Chair of the Obesity Committee of the AHA and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Health and author on the CKM guidelines. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Circulation, the leading cardiovascular journal in the United States.