Gordon Francis
MD, FRCPC
Endocrinologist
Dr. Gordon Francis is an endocrinologist specializing in lipid and diabetes management. He is a member and former director of the Healthy Heart Program Prevention (Lipid) Clinic based at St. Paul’s Hospital, and a physician scientist in the UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation also based at St. Paul’s. His research focuses on mechanisms of cholesterol accumulation and removal from the walls of arteries, with the goal of understanding how to alter these processes to reduce heart attacks and strokes. He is a long standing member of the Canadian Lipid Guidelines panel and led the use of nonHDL-cholesterol and apoB as preferred targets to reduce atherosclerosis, as well as using nonfasting lipid testing and routine measurement of lipoprotein (a) for cardiovascular risk assessment.
