Merle Myerson, MD, EdD, FACC, FNLA

Cardiologist, Lipidologist

Dr. Merle Myerson is board-certified cardiologist and lipidologist and an expert in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and sports cardiology. Dr. Myerson graduated from Columbia University, Barnard College. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York (with distinction in research) and completed her internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center. She subsequently completed her cardiology fellowship at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Myerson also holds a doctorate in applied and exercise physiology from Teachers College, Columbia University and two post-doctorates, one in basic lipid research at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and one in preventive cardiology at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York.

From 2005-2015, she was an attending crdiologist and founder and director of the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in New York City. She also founded and directed the Cardiology Section in the Institute for Advanced (HIV) Medicine. Prior to this, she was a medical officer at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Myerson most recently was an attending cardiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where she practiced inpatient and outpatient general cardiology with subspecialties in lipidology, preventive cardiology, and sports cardiology.

Her research activities focus on cardiovascular disease risk factors, including the diagnosis and treatment of high cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, smoking and sedentary lifestyle. Dr. Myerson is also a medical and health writer and consultant. She holds several positions within NLA, including chair of the Women’s Health Committee, secretary for the Northeast Chapter, co-chair of the Lipid Panel and mentor in the NLA Mentorship program.