Eric J. Topol
Eric J. Topol is Executive Vice President at Scripps Research Institute, the largest non-profit biomedical research facility in the United States. He is also Director and Founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, Chair of the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research Institute, Senior Consultant for the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Scripps Clinic, and the Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine in the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research.
Clinically active as a cardiologist, he previously led Cleveland Clinic cardiology to become the leading heart center in the US. He was the founder of a new medical school at Cleveland Clinic (Lerner College of Medicine) and was commissioned by the UK government to lead a review of their National Health Service. Topol is a principal investigator of two large NIH grants for innovations to promote human health. He has published over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 380,000 citations, was elected to the National Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Medicine, and is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine. In 2024, Topol was featured in the inaugural TIME100 Health list of most influential people in health in the world. In 2025, he was voted as one of the 25 Best Leaders in the United States (US News).
He has authored four bestselling books on the future of medicine: The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (2012), The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands (2015), Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019), and Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity (2025). On Substack, he publishes Ground Truths, a weekly newsletter and podcast on cutting-edge biomedical advances.