Laurence Sperling
Preventive cardiologist; Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, founder of the Emory Heart Disease Prevention Center, and Chief Medical Officer of the Family Heart Foundation.
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Nov 3, 2026
Eiman JahangirHOST
What made you realize that this was something you could do, preventative cardiology? So now you're
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starting to age me because I started, I was a chief resident at Emory University Hospital from 1992 to 1993.
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I did a molecular and vascular biology fellowship that was sponsored by the NHLBI.
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And it was at the time where we were really beginning to understand the molecular mechanisms, cellular mechanisms, the signaling behind the disease atherosclerosis.
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And for your listeners, this remains the number one cause of death in the world, heart disease.
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And although we much better understand the underpinnings for this at a cellular level, molecular level.
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