E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD Honored as Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecturer at International Society for Heart Research 2025 World Congress
The UCLA Department of Medicine is pleased to share that Chair and Executive Medical Director E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD was the recipient of the Keith Reimer Distinguished Award and Lecture at the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) World Congress May 11 through 14 in Nara, Japan. This honor is reserved for distinguished scientists who study ischemia, coronary hemodynamics, cardiac metabolism, or contractile mechanisms. It is named for the late Dr. Keith Reimer, a prolific cardiovascular scientist.
Dr. Abel’s ISHR World Congress lecture, “Mitochondria, Metabolism and Heart Failure – Beyond ATP”, focused on metabolic mechanisms that lead to heart failure, that transcend the traditional view of energy deficiency. He has held NIH funding for this area of research since 1995, along with funding from the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His contributions to cardiovascular, endocrine and metabolism research have been recognized with numerous awards and honorary lectures, including an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of West Indies in 2024; the Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award of the Endocrine Society; the Robert and Margaret Eckel Endowed Lecture in Cardiometabolic Disease; the 2018 African American Museum of Iowa History Makers Award; and the NIH Director’s Astute Clinician Lecture.
Dr. Abel is an elected member of the American Association of Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. He is past president of the Endocrine Society and the Association of Professors of Medicine.
Dr. Abel graduated with distinction from the University of West Indies School of Medicine before obtaining a DPhil from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He trained in internal medicine at Northwestern University, where he served as chief resident, and in endocrinology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Over the course of his career, he has authored and co-authored more than 227 peer-reviewed publications in world-class medical journals, along with 57 reviews and book chapters. His work laid the foundation for much of the field’s current understanding of the metabolic underpinnings of heart failure, particularly in the context of obesity and diabetes.
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