Thomas Darice Dayspring is an American physician, author and educator who is a diplomate of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Clinical Lipidology and was a certified menopause practitioner by the North American Menopause Society.[1]
Dayspring served as the President of the Passaic County Historical Society, and the historian of the more than 200-year-old Paterson Fire Department. For developing an extensive website devoted to the department he was named an honorary Battalion Chief.[3] After residency, for 37 years he practiced internal medicine with his associate Charles Macaluso in Passaic County, NJ, gaining experience in patient care focusing on cardiovascular care, lipid management and women’s menopausal health issues.[4] He was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at his medical school.[5]
Dayspring relocated to Virginia to serve as the educational director the nonprofit Foundation for Healthcare and Technology (FHIT) and then transitioned to the position of Chief Academic Advisor for two major cardiovascular biomarker laboratories, where he contributed significantly to lipid education and research.[6] Dayspring is married to his wife Phyllis and they have one son Bradford.
Dayspring’s educational teaching career included performing numerous lectures (over 650 CME lectures), in all 50 of the United States and several other countries, primarily discussing topics related to atherosclerosis, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, vascular biology, and women’s menopausal and cardiovascular health.[7] Dayspring served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Lipidology.[8] He is a major global social media Influencer serving as an Ambassador for the European Atherosclerosis Society and National Lipid Association by actively sharing his insights and teaching materials related to lipidology and cardiovascular care.[9]
Selected publications
Dayspring has authored, co-authored and illustrated over 50 peer-reviewed lipid/lipoprotein research and review manuscripts, posters, and textbook chapters focusing on Lipid metabolism and cardiovascular risk assessment, Lipoprotein biology and biomarkers, Therapeutic approaches to dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis and the role of lipids in women’s cardiovascular health
Selected manuscripts:
''Dayspring, Thomas D.; Varvel, Stephen A.; Ghaedi, Leila; Thiselton, Dawn L.; Bruton, James; McConnell, Joseph P. (2015). "Biomarkers of cholesterol homeostasis in a clinical laboratory database sample comprising 667,718 patients". Journal of Clinical Lipidology. '''9''' (6): 807–816. doi:10.1016/j.jacl.2015.08.003. ISSN 1933-2874. PMID 26687702''
Dayspring T. Editorial: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees “Big Trucks, Little Trucks” Menopause. 2002;9:79-81
Dayspring T. Cardiovascular Disease: A Comprehensive Primer for Clinicians. Menopause Management. 2002;11:16-25'''.'''
Dayspring T, Qu Wongming and Keech C. Effects of raloxifene on lipid and lipoprotein levels in postmenopausal osteoporotic women with and without hypertriglyceridemia. Metabolism Clinical and Experimental 2006;55:972-979
Dayspring T & Pokrywka G. Fibrate Therapy in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus. Current Atherosclerosis Reports 2006;8:356-364
Dayspring T. High Density Lipoproteins – Emerging Knowledge Journal of the Cardiometabolic Syndrome 2007;2:59-62
Dayspring T & Pokrywka G. Menopausal Lipidology: Pharmacotherapeutic decisions in Menopausal Women with Cardiovascular Risk Future Lipidology 2007;2197-210
Selected textbook chapters:
Remaley AT, Dayspring TD and Warnick GR. Chapter 34 on Lipids, Lipoproteins, Apolipoproteins, and other Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics. Sixth Edition Elsevier March 2017
Dayspring T. Chapter on: Apoproteins and Cell Surface Receptors Regulating Lipoprotein Metabolism in the Setting of Diabetes. Lipoproteins in Diabetes Springer-Humana. Editors Peter Toth, Alicia Jenkins and Tim Lyons 2014)
Therapeutic Lipidology (2nd edition 2021) – Dayspring T & Pokrywka G Chapter 13: Intestinally Active Therapies for Hypercholesterolemia: Ezetimibe, Bile Acid Resins and Plant Sterols. Editors - Davidson MH, Toth PP and Maki KC Humana Press
Dayspring T. Phytosterolemia: Synthesis, Absorption, Trafficking and Excretion of Cholesterol and Noncholesterol Sterols.
Therapeutic Lipidology (Chapter 14). Davidson MH, Toth PP, and Maki KC. Editors 2008 Humana Press Totowa, NJ
↑ "Phyllis Ann Nero Weds Dr. Thomas Dayspring", The Paterson News, June 7, 1972. Accessed April 6, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "In a candlelight setting, Sunday, at Our Lady of Pompei R. C. Church, Miss Phyllis Ann Nero, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Nero of 187 Carlisle Ave., was married to Dr. Thomas Darice Dayspring, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dayspring of 252 Clinton St.... Dayspring, a graduate of Central High School, received an A. B. degree from Rutgers University and an M. D. degree from the College of Medicine of New Jersey. He is a physician at St. Joseph's Hospital."
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