Honorary Fellow of the ASPC Award
History of the Fellow Award:
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology is committed to advancing comprehensive cardiovascular disease prevention and honors those who share in this commitment. Each year, we will identify one individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of preventive cardiology through groundbreaking research, exemplary clinical care, and/or excellence in education. The ASPC recognizes this individual for his/her extensive contributions with the designation honorary Fellow of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (FASPC). We will bestow an honorary FASPC on a select few practitioners who are deemed by the Board of Directors of ASPC to distinguish themselves in all aspects of Preventive Cardiology. This award is presented at the ASPC Congress on CVD Prevention that occurs every July.
2025 Honorary Fellow of ASPC Award Recipient
Helen Hobbs, MD
Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Helen H. Hobbs is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from Stanford University and Case Western Reserve Medical School, she completed her clinical training in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian and UTSW and her scientific training in the laboratory of Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein at UTSW. Together with Jonathan Cohen, she has used human genetics to identify sequence variations of large effect sizes that alter levels of plasma Lp(a) [APOA], LDL-cholesterol (ABCG5/ABCG8, LDLRAP, PCSK9, NPC1L1, ANGPTL3), and triglyceride (ANGPTL3,-4,-8). She also discovered the two most impactful genetic risk factors for steatotic liver disease (PNPLA3, TM6SF2). Gene identification is the starting point for studies elucidating pathways and processes altered by the defective genes she has identified. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences, and she is recipient of several prizes, including The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) and the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine (2018).
Previous Winners of the Honorary Fellow of the ASPC Award
2024 Christopher P. Cannon, MD
2023 Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM
2022 Pam S. Douglas, MD, MACC, FASE, FAHA
2021 Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, FASPC
2020 Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA, FASPC
2019 Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD