Eric Topol

Eric Topol
Born26 June 1954 Edit this on Wikidata
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Websitehttps://drerictopol.com/ Edit this on Wikidata
Academic career
FieldsGenetics, cardiology Edit this on Wikidata
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Eric Jeffrey Topol (born (1954-06-26) June 26, 1954 (age 70))[1] is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute,[2] 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. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine:[3] The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019). He was commissioned by the UK from 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence.

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 (All of Us Research Program), a one million American prospective research program.[4] This funding was renewed in 2023 for $282 million over five years. This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for the Scripps hub of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, aimed at promoting innovation in medicine and future medical researchers' education and career training. Topol’s group has been supported by the CTSA since 2008, with the most recent funding of $46.8 million being awarded in 2023 for 7 years.

  1. ^ Eric, Topol (2012-10-01). "Curriculum Vitae Eric J. Topol, M.D" (PDF). stsiweb.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  2. ^ Scripps Translational Science Institute
  3. ^ Deep Medicine. Hachette Book Group. 17 July 2018. ISBN 9781541644632. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Comstock, Jonah (6 October 2016). "NIH expands grant for Scripps-led Precision Medicine group to $207M". MobiHealthNews. HIMSS Media.