Medical director
Dr. Elena Ruiz
Eleven years in a hospital risk unit, seeing people after their first event. She set up Kerno to measure them earlier.
Specialty
Cardiometabolic risk
Years practising
22
Credentials
Registration no.
28/2814517
Degree
MD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2002
Training
Internal medicine residency, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, 2003 to 2007. Fellowship in lipidology, 2008
Hospital
Hospital Universitario La Paz, cardiovascular risk unit, 2008 to 2019
Years practising
22
Languages
Spanish, English, Catalan
Check it yourself
Every Kerno physician is registered with the Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid. The number above can be checked on the public register.
About Elena
I spent eleven years in a hospital risk unit seeing people after their first event. Most had a normal cholesterol on their last check. Many had an ApoB that would have told a different story, and nobody had measured it.
Kerno exists to measure it earlier. I set the panel, the targets and the rules for when we act and when we wait. I read every lipid panel before it reaches a member.
I do not think a longevity clinic should promise years. It should tell you, with numbers, where you stand and which of those numbers you can move.
Publications
2023
Discordance between LDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B in a Spanish preventive cohort
Revista Española de Cardiología
2021
Fasting insulin as an early marker in normoglycaemic adults over 40
Endocrinología, Diabetes y Nutrición
2018
Lipoprotein(a) testing rates in a tertiary risk unit, 2012 to 2017
Clínica e Investigación en Arteriosclerosis
