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FEATURED SPEAKER ANNOUNCED

Featured Speaker:

Eric J. Topol, MD
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
Vice-Chairman, West Wireless Health Institute
The Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine
Professor of Translational Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute

The FUTURE of Medicine by Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a National Institutes of Health funded program of the Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium

Dr. Eric Topol
Eric J. Topol, M.D. is the Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a National Institutes of Health funded program of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium focused on advancing individualized medicine. He is the Chief Academic Officer of Scripps Health, a Senior Consultant cardiologist practitioner at Scripps Clinic, and Professor of Translational Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute.

Prior to coming to Scripps, he served on the faculty of Case Western as a professor in genetics, chaired the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic for 15 years and raised its status to rank #1 by US News and World Report for 11 consecutive years, and founded the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. His work in the genomics of heart attack has led to discovery of key genes recognized by the American Heart Association top 10 research advances in 2002 and 2004. As a leader in clinical trials of novel therapeutics, he administered recombinant t-PA to the first patient in 1984, pioneered and led the clinical development of clopidogrel (Plavix), bivalirudin (Angiomax), and abciximab (ReoPro). He has over 1000 original peer reviewed publications, and has edited over 30 books, including the Textbook of Interventional Cardiology (5th ed), and the Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (3rd ed). He has been a medical innovator in wireless medicine, including wireless ECG, vital signs, remote monitoring for heart failure, and as co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute.

Dr. Topol has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association of Physicians and recognized by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) to be in the top 10 cited biomedical researchers in medicine in the past decade.