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Daniel Soffer, Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Soffer is a full-time clinician and educator at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine of the Perelman School of Medicine and clinical lipid specialist whose focus is preventive cardiovascular medicine.

He is the Director of Education for Preventive Cardiology and Clinical Lipidology at the University of Pennsylvania and co-Director of the Preventive Cardiology Fellowship Program at Pennsylvania Hospital and co-director of the Perelman School of Medicine Foundations of Culinary Medicine course.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Clinical Lipidology, and Fellow and Master of the National Lipid Association (NLA) and American College of Physicians (ACP) and he is a Member of the Academy of Master Clinicians at Penn Medicine.

He is involved with multiple NLA activities including leadership, administration, education, meeting planning, and editing. He was President of the National Lipid Association (2023/2024) and President (2018/2019) of the Northeast Chapter of the NLA (NELA). He was co-editor of the NLA journal LipidSpin (2015-2020) and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Lipidology as well as co-Director and lecturer for the Foundations of Lipidology course for the NLA and recipient of NLA’s Clinician-Educator Award (2025). He is also the co-director of the Philadelphia Lipid and Atherosclerosis Club (PLAC). In addition to clinical medicine, teaching, writing, and editing, he also participates as an investigator in ongoing clinical research with lipid-modifying pharmacotherapies and population health initiatives.

He earned BA and MD from the University of Pennsylvania and Internal Medicine residency was completed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and has practiced his entire career (since 1997) at Penn.

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