Stephen Raskin, MD is currently the Director of the Sutter Eastbay Lipid Clinic in Oakland, California. He is a former Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and mentor at the UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical School Program. Dr. Raskin is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York where in addition to premedical training he served as the political cartoonist for the school newspaper. He graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin and was elected to the National Honor Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha. He is a Fellow American College of Cardiology and holds Board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular diseases, Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Clinical Lipidology. He enjoys travel photography and has been an avid sailor, completing two transpacific crossings. Dr. Raskin lives in Oakland with his wife Anne, and their feline, Nuzzie. Dr. Raskin is a frequent invited lecturer on preventive cardiology.