Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales David Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW. David Sullivan is a physician and chemical pathologist in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney Central Clinical School. Previous clinical posts have included the MRC Lipoprotein Unit, Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London and co-ordination of international clinical studies from the World Health Organization reference lipid laboratory in Wageningen, Netherlands. David has a long-term interest in lipid metabolism with particular emphasis on the dietary component of gene – environment interactions contributing to cardiovascular disease. He has been involved in the early use of many forms of lipid-lowering intervention and his other main interest is the improvement of detection and management of severe inherited dyslipidaemia. David has served on numerous clinical committees including the management committees of the LIPID and FIELD trials and he is a past president of national atherosclerosis and clinical nutrition societies.