Ronald M. Krauss is Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute is a biomedical research institute affiliated with California’s pediatric medical center, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland....

, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Adjunct Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, and Guest Senior Scientist in the Genome Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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. He received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School

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He researches genetic, dietary, and hormonal effects on plasma lipoproteins and coronary disease risk.

External links

• Overview at CHORI
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886898Interview with Krauss and Gary Taubes
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