Eric Topol

At a glance

• Eric Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist and author. He is founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.
• As a cardiologist he led large clinical trials and was one of the first to warn publicly about the increased heart risk of the painkiller Vioxx.
• In books such as The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2012), The Patient Will See You Now (2015) and Deep Medicine (2019) he writes about digital medicine, genomics and artificial intelligence.
• Through the Wellderly study his team analysed the genomes of healthy people over 80.
• In Super Agers (2025) he brings together the evidence on what helps people age well: exercise, diet and sleep, plus new biomarkers and AI to spot risks earlier.
• On his Substack Ground Truths he explains new studies for a broad audience, critically and well documented.
• Takeaway: lifestyle remains the foundation, but watch how new measurement tools can help your doctor detect risks earlier.