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Eric Topol

American cardiologist, author, founder of Scripps Translational Institute

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Updated 2026-05-29

The cardiologist arguing that algorithms and genomics will rewire medicine from the exam room out—and that doctors who ignore the shift will become obsolete.

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Eric Topol was born June 26, 1954, trained as a cardiologist, and by the 2010s had become one of American medicine's most visible futurists. He founded and directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California, where he also holds professorships and consults in cardiovascular medicine. In 2016 the National Institutes of Health handed him a $207 million grant to lead a major arm of the Precision Medicine Initiative—a million-person research cohort; that funding was renewed in 2023 for $282 million over five years. Between 2018 and 2019 the UK government commissioned him t…

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Cardiology
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Genomics
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DegreeInstitutionYearCountry
MDUniversity of Rochester1979—
ResidencyUCSF1985—
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  1. 1.
    Deep Medicine
    Basic Books2019
  2. 2.
    The Patient Will See You Now
    Basic Books2015
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