Eric Topol, a graduate of UCSF’s medicine residency, has published over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and is one of the top 10 most-cited researchers in medicine with more than 300,000 citations. For decades an international leader in cardiology, precision medicine, and digital health, during Covid he emerged as one of the world’s most trusted sources of information on the scientific and policy aspects of the pandemic. In this week’s Medical Grand Rounds, Eric will be in conversation with Bob Wachter, discussing the latest updates in Covid, as well as some of the new developments in artificial intelligence and digital transformation of health care.
Speaker:
Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, is a world-renowned cardiologist and geneticist. His principal scientific focus has been on the use of genomic and digital data, along with artificial intelligence, to individualize medicine. He has written 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. He is the principal investigator to two large NIH grants, the All of Us Research Program that supports precision medicine and a Clinical and Translational Science (CTSA) Award that promotes innovation in medicine. Eric was the founder of a new medical school at Cleveland Clinic (Lerner College of Medicine), was commissioned by the UK to lead a review of their National Health Service, and is active clinically as a cardiologist. Additionally, he is editor-in-chief of Medscape, publishes the Substack newsletter Ground Truths, and maintains a strong presence on social media on Twitter (@erictopol) with over 675,000 followers.
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Program
Bob Wachter: Introduction
00:01:50-01:00:22 – Eric Topol, director and founder, Scripps Research Translational Institute
See previous Medical Grand Rounds:
• February 23: Protecting the Legitimacy of Medical Expertise: Combating Misinformation in Medicine
https://youtu.be/CpeeYv3Fjk8
• February 16: Addressing the Crisis of Clinician Burnout — A Conversation with Tait Shanafelt
https://youtu.be/I7iWkG93ZHQ
• February 9: ChatGPT: Will It Transform the World of Health Care?
https://youtu.be/j-aOCuzfxUI
• February 2: Covid-19 in 2023: A Conversation with White House Covid Coordinator Ashish Jha
https://youtu.be/CjVl2KjXjyM
See all UCSF Covid-19 grand rounds, which have been viewed over 3M times, at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2l8GCZXFqSgUfwaResQ7rGwKbGIUi_m