Dr Handrean Soran MSc, MD, FRCP is Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist with a specialist interest in lipidology, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular risk, parathyroid, calcium and bone metabolism. He provides a tertiary centre service for lipoprotein disorders, as well as calcium and metabolic bone diseases. His research work is mainly focused on cardiovascular risk, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) quality, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) functionality, micro- and macrovascular complications in diabetes and obesity and the effect of metabolic surgery induced weight loss.

Dr Soran acted as the UK chief investigator for more than 15 clinical trials and principal investigator for more than 20 clinical trials and studies. He also acted as a member of the steering committee of many large multinational randomised control trials. He is currently a member of the steering committee of two RCTs and the executive committee of the European Atherosclerosis Society’s Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Collaborative Studies (FHSC).