Eric Topol

Topol attended medical school at the University of Rochester, trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and trained in cardiology at Johns Hopkins.⁠[1]

Before joining Cleveland Clinic he was a tenured professor at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a university founded in Detroit in 1817 that moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1837; it is governed by a statewide-elected Board of Regents and also has campuses in Dearborn and Flint.Open the full entry for six years.⁠[1]

From 1991 to 2006 Topol chaired the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, whose program was consistently ranked first in the nation during his tenure. In 2001 he was a founder and the provost of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, and he also served as Cleveland Clinic’s chief academic officer.⁠[1]

On October 24, 2006, Scripps Health announced that Topol would become its chief academic officer and chief of genomic medicine and translational science, lead the new Scripps Translational Research Institute and serve as a senior consultant in the cardiology division of Scripps Clinic. The announcement was made at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s 18th Annual Scientific Symposium in Washington, D.C.⁠[1]

In 2019 Topol published Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. His earlier books include The Creative Destruction of Medicine and The Patient Will See You Now.⁠[2]

Topol was named to TIMETIMETIME is an American newsmagazine and media brand founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, which published its first issue on March 3, 1923; it is headquartered in New York and known for its Person of the Year selection and the TIME100 list. Since 2018 it has been personally owned by Marc and Lynne Benioff; its current Chief Executive Officer is Jessica Sibley, and its Editor-in-Chief is Sam Jacobs.Open the full entry’s inaugural TIME100 Health list in 2024 and was among the 25 Best Leaders in the United States named by U.S. News & World Report in 2025.⁠[2]

On May 14, 2025, Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry (a16z) released the a16z Podcast episode “What Super Agers Reveal About Preventing Disease,” in which Vijay Pande, an a16z general partner and founder of its Bio + Health team, spoke with Topol. Centered on Topol’s book Super Agers, the conversation argued that understanding the biology of aging, rather than trying to reverse it, is key to preventing the “Big Three” age-related diseases (cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative conditions), and covered AI-based risk prediction, organ clocks, polygenic risk scores, GLP-1 drugs and the cultural and economic changes needed to move from “sick care” to precision prevention.⁠[3]

On May 27, 2025, the a16z YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel published the video “7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers.” The same day a16z.com posted the Bio + Health episode “Superaging with Eric Topol,” hosted by Vijay Pande, which introduces Topol as the author of Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity.⁠[4][5]

The episode discussed the shift from curing disease to preventing it and the future of aging, prevention and precision health, including AI-driven risk prediction, next-generation immunotherapies, GLP-1 drugs and organ-specific aging clocks, with a focus on extending healthspan rather than lifespan alone.⁠[5]

Topol is executive vice-president of Scripps Research, chair of its Department of Translational Medicine and founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; he holds the Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine and is a senior consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic.⁠[2]

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and is listed among the ten most-cited researchers in medicine. He publishes the Substack newsletter and podcast Ground Truths.⁠[2]

Scripps Research: Official website: https://www.scripps.edu/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

Ground Truths (Substack): Official website: https://erictopol.substack.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/EricTopol (opens in a new window).⁠[2]