<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Lavie attended medical school at LSUMC in New Orleans and did his Internal Medicine training at Ochsner and cardiology at the Mayo Clinic. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention and Director of the Exercise Laboratories at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-The University of Queensland School of Medicine in New Orleans. He has authored over 1600 medical publications ( # 1121 on PubMed on 06/01/23) with an h-index of 142 and 2 cardiology textbooks and serves on 40 editorial boards, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the American Journal of Cardiology, and is Associate Editor and Cardiovascular Section Editor of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases and is the author of the book The Obesity Paradox.</span></p>


Carl (Chip) Lavie, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP