- Not Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Metabolic medicine
About me
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki is consultant in metabolic medicine/chemical pathology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals (GSTT) and honorary Professor in Cardiometabolic Disease at King’s College, London. He runs a regional centre for lipid disorders and a national orphan lipid disease clinic and runs lipid pheresis services within GSTT. He is clinical lead forClinical Biochemistry at Synlab at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is secretary of the national network of specialist Lipid laboratories and Genomic Medicine Services Alliance lead for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) in SE England.
His research interests are in the role of lipids in atherosclerosis and in peroxisomal diseases. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (USA). He has published 400 papers, 19 book chapters including for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Kumar & Clark’s Pathology and 1 book. He was a trustee of HEART-UK (UK Cholesterol charity) and chairman of its medical and scientific committee (2002-08). He is a committee member of FH-Europe and the DARE Foundation for Refsum disease.
He helped write the International guidelines on FH (2014) and the American Heart Association scientific consensus statement on FH (2015). At the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) he has served on the Technology Appraisal (2006-09), Highly Specialised (orphan disease) Therapies (2013-15) and Diagnostics Appraisal committees (2014-20). He was a member of the FH guideline group (CG71; 2008-09) and chaired the Lipid Modification and Cardiovascular Risk (CG181; 2012-14); Chronic Heart Failure (NG106; 2016-18), Hypertension (NG136; 2017-19) and now Chronic Kidney Disease guidelines (CG182; 2018-21).
Areas of interest
Hyperlipidaemia; cholesterol; triglycerides; cardiovascular risk assessment; rare lipid disorders
Medical secretaries
- Chioma Ifezue
- Secretarial Department London Bridge Hospital 27 Tooley Street LONDON SE1 2PR
- 020 7234 2235
- 020 7357 8369
- pa.awierzbicki@hcahealthcare.co.uk
