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Robert Kiss

Title: 
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
Contact Information
Email address: 
robert.kiss [at] mcgill.ca
Location: 
MUHC, Royal Victoria Hospital
Division: 
Cardiology
Biography: 

Dr. Robert Kiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and a researcher in the Division of Cardiology at the MUHC. He completed his PhD at the University of Alberta under Dr. Robert Ryan, studying the structure-function relationship of apolipoprotein A-I, followed by postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Heart Institute under Dr. Yves Marcel, where he studied ABCA1 and novel mechanisms of intracellular cholesterol trafficking. He joined 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ in 2006. His research focuses on how the body generates HDL, the so-called "good cholesterol", examining how cells produce HDL and transport cholesterol into it, with the goal of understanding and preventing heart attacks.

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