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Eric Topol

Eric Topol

Eric Topol is Executive Vice President of Scripps Research, the largest nonprofit  biomedical research organization in the United States. He founded and directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute and is a professor of molecular medicine. He has  published over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 340,000 citations, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine. His research is dedicated to promoting human health using genomic and  digital data, as well as AI. 

He authored three bestselling books on the future of medicine: The Creative Destruction  of MedicineThe Patient Will See You Now, and Deep Medicine: How Artificial  Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. At Substack, he publishes Ground  Truths, a weekly newsletter and podcast on cutting-edge biomedical advances. Topol is the principal investigator to two large National Institutes of Health grants; one supports the All of Us Research Program that enables precision medicine, and the other is a Clinical and Translational Science (CTSA) Award that promotes innovation in medicine. He was the founder of a new medical school at Cleveland Clinic, theLerner College of Medicine, was commissioned by the United Kingdom to lead a review of their National  Health Service and is a practicing cardiologist.