Christie M. Ballantyne
General / Preventive / Lipids
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
About
Christie M. Ballantyne works in General / Preventive / Lipids affiliated with Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, is Section Chief of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He also serves as Director of the Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention and holds the J.S. Abercrombie Chair in Atherosclerosis and Lipoprotein Research. His work focuses on prevention of cardiometabolic disease through pharmacological studies, biomarkers, and genetic research.
Research focus
Lipid metabolism and atherosclerosisCardiometabolic disease preventionLipid-lowering therapies and clinical trialsInflammation and cardiovascular riskGenetic epidemiology of lipids and cardiometabolic disease
Impact
2,016 pubs · 116,831 cites · h-index 158
Training
MD
Baylor College of Medicine
1982
BA
University of Texas at Austin
1977
Affiliations
Work Experience
Section Chief of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research; Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine · 1988 - Present
Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention
Baylor College of Medicine
Chief, Cardiovascular Research and Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine