Vice Chairman of the Board
Chief Innovation Officer
In addition to his serving as Vice Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Innovation Officer of the West Wireless Health Institute, Eric J. Topol, M.D. is the Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a National Institutes of Health funded program of the Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium. He is also Professor of Translational Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute, Chief Academic Officer and holder of the Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine at Scripps Health, and a Senior Consultant cardiologist practitioner at Scripps Clinic.
Dr. Topol is an innovator in wireless medicine. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of CardioNet, which offers continuous ECG monitoring via wireless technology and was the first public company in wireless health. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Sotera Wireless, a developer of complete vital sign monitoring using wireless technology, including blood pressure measurement without the need for a traditional arm cuff.
Dr. Topol formerly served on the faculty of Case Western University as a professor in genetics, chaired the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic for fifteen years, and founded the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. His work in the genomics of heart attack led to discovery of key genes which were recognized as American Heart Association Top 10 research advances in 2002 and 2004.
Dr. Topol has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association of Physicians, and is recognized by the Institute of Scientific Information to be in the Top 10 cited biomedical researchers in medicine in the past decade.