William Cromwell received his doctoral degree in medicine from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed residency training at the Trover Clinic Foundation in Madisonville, Kentucky where he received one of twenty national Meade Johnson Graduate Fellowships. Subsequently, he completed postgraduate work in Lipid Disorders at the Washington University School of Medicine Lipid Research Center in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1991 to 1994 Dr. Cromwell served as Head of the Division of Lipid Disorders and Medical Director of The Lipid Treatment Program at the Trover Clinic in Madisonville, Kentucky. He moved to Central Florida in 1994 to begin work with The Florida Lipid Associates serving as Medical Director of The Lipid Consultation Program in Lake Wales, Florida and Medical Director of The Florida Lipid Institute in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Cromwell continued his work in Florida until October 1999 when he accepted a joint position as Chief Medical Officer of LipoScience, Inc. (formerly LipoMed, Inc.) and Medical Director of The Lipoprotein and Metabolic Disorders Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. Cromwell maintained these positions from October 1999 to January 2005 at which time he accepted the position of Medical Director of the Division of Lipoprotein Disorders at the Presbyterian / Novant Center for Preventive Cardiology in Charlotte, North Carolina. In December 2008 Dr. Cromwell became Chief of the Division of Atherosclerosis and Lipoprotein Disorders for the Presbyterian / Novant Cardiovascular Institute, as well as Medical Director of Novant Heart and Wellness in Raleigh, NC. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In addition to these positions, Dr. Cromwell is a fellow of the American Heart Association, fellow of the National Lipid Association, member of the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, Southeastern Lipid Association, and Florida Lipid Foundation. Dr. Cromwell has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the fields of lipoprotein disorders and physical chemistry.