Dr. Larry Kaskel is a graduate of the Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. Dr. Kaskel is dual board certified in both internal medicine and clinical lipidology. He was one of the earliest certified lipidologists in the nation. In the early 1990's, he participated in clinical trials testing cholesterol medicines alongside Dr. Michael Davidson, a leading expert on cholesterol treatment and management. Dr. Kaskel is on the staff of Lake Forest Hospital and is the founder and medical director of the Heart Attack Prevention Center in Lake County, Illinois. He is married with two young children.