2026 James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology Lecturer – Eric Topol, MD

Eric Topol, MD

Scripps Research
La Jolla, California

Eric Topol, MD, is the executive vice president of Scripps Research, a globally renowned nonprofit biomedical research institution, where he founded the Scripps Research Translational Institute in 2007 and serves as its director. Clinically active as a cardiologist, he previously led Cleveland Clinic cardiology to become the leading heart center in the U.S. 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 its National Health Service.

Topol is a principal investigator of two large National Institutes of Health grants for innovations to promote human health. He has published over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 400,000 citations, has been elected to the National Academy 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 recognized as one of the 25 Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.

He has authored four bestselling books on the future of medicine: “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” “The Patient Will See You Now,” “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again” and his latest book, “Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity.” At Substack, he publishes Ground Truths, a weekly newsletter and podcast on cutting-edge biomedical advances.