1. Research Group in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR SANT PAU), Barcelona, Spain
2. Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Nuclear Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea, Rome, Italy
Plenary Speaker
Name: Prof. Dr. Nathan D. Wong Affiliation: Mary and Steve Wen Cardiovascular Division and Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health and Nutrition University of California, Irvine, California, USA Talk Title: Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: From Risk Scoring to Opportunistic Evaluation of Subclinical Disease Bio: Dr. Nathan D. Wong is Professor and Director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program, Mary and Steve Wen Cardiovascular Division and Co-Director of the Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Dr. Wong is also a past president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on various topic in preventive cardiology and cardiovascular epidemiology. His research interests include cardiovascular risk assessment, subclinical atherosclerosis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia.