Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, professor of translational genomics at The Scripps Research Institute, and chief academic officer at Scripps Health, has been named the most influential physician executive by Modern Healthcare magazine and its sister publication, Modern Physician.
A well-known cardiologist and advocate of technology’s promise to transform the delivery of healthcare services, Topol heads the publications’ list of 50 honorees, which includes Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Regina Benjamin, the U.S. surgeon general, and Jeffrey Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. The list was chosen by the publications’ readers and finalized by the editors.
Topol, who also holds the positions of Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine at Scripps Research and vice chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute, recently authored a book called The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, which explores the potential of digital innovation to improve medicine.
Colleagues, friends, and students recently gathered for a science symposium celebrating the 75th birthday of Scripps Research Institute Professor Emeritus Floyd (center). Scripps Research President and CEO Michael Marletta (left) and Chair of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Tamas Bartfai opened the symposium with praise for Bloom’s expansive influence in the field of science.