1. Eric Jeffrey Topol was born on June 26,1954 and is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author.
30 Facts About Eric Topol
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Eric Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.
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Eric Topol has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine: The Creative Destruction of Medicine, The Patient Will See You Now, and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.
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In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, a one million American prospective research program.
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Eric Topol pioneered the development of many medications that are routinely used in medical practice including t-PA, Plavix, Angiomax, and ReoPro.
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Eric Topol has led clinical trials in over 40 countries involving over 200,000 patients.
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Eric Topol has edited over 30 books, including the Textbook of Interventional Cardiology, and the Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.
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Eric Topol completed medical school at the University of Rochester, his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and his fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
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Eric Topol was a tenured professor at the University of Michigan for 6 years.
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Eric Topol departed from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in 2006 following the removal of the chief academic officer position, and continued at Case Western Reserve University.
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Eric Topol was then recruited by Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute in late 2006 to create a new institute, now called Scripps Research Translational, dedicated to individualized medicine.
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In 2009, Eric Topol worked with Gary and Mary West to create the West Wireless Health Institute, now called West Health Institute, to foster the use of digital tools in medical research and practice.
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Eric Topol was the principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health's Specialized Centers of Clinically Oriented Research grant on the genomics of heart attack with a $17M award in 2005.
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Eric Topol has been involved with digital medicine since its inception.
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Eric Topol is the vice-chairman of the institute and its chief innovation officer.
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Eric Topol led the first trial with the GE Vscan device according to GE Reports, a pocket high resolution, mobile ultrasound imaging device, introduced in the US in 2010.
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Eric Topol's report suggested that within ten years most patients would be managing their own long-term conditions with wearable devices and sensors, and that that would be much more effective than occasional appointments with a doctor.
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Eric Topol served as chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic from 1991 to 2005.
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Eric Topol was one of the first researchers to question the cardiovascular safety of rofecoxib, culminating in that drug's withdrawal from the market.
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Eric Topol reported that Topol served as a scientific advisor to a hedge fund which profited substantially by short selling Merck stock, which plummeted due to the concerns about Vioxx which Topol had publicized.
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Eric Topol denied giving the hedge fund advance information, and subsequently severed his ties to industry, donating all such income directly to charity.
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In November 2005, Eric Topol was subpoenaed in a class action lawsuit against Merck.
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Eric Topol testified that Vioxx posed an "extraordinary risk", and that Raymond Gilmartin, former chief executive officer of Merck, had contacted the head of the Cleveland Clinic board to complain about Topol's work on Vioxx.
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Two days afterward, Eric Topol was informed that the position as chief academic officer at the Cleveland Clinic had been abolished, and he was removed as provost of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, which he had founded.
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Eric Topol called on Hahn to revise his statement or resign.
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Eric Topol was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
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Eric Topol was named Doctor of the Decade by the Institute for Scientific Information for being one of the top 10 most cited medical researchers.
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In 2011, Eric Topol received the Hutchinson Medal from the University of Rochester in addition to giving the commencement speech for the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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In 2024, Eric Topol was featured in the inaugural TIME100 Health list of most influential people in health in the world.
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Eric Topol is married to Susan Merriman Topol with whom he has two children.