Best Known Method

Dr. Sek Kathiresan, CEO of Verve Therapeutics, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his experiments to map the areas of our genome that are associated with different levels of blood cholesterol, the genetic basis underlying risk of heart attack, and his decision to step away from his roles as Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute, and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, to put all of his efforts into Verve.

Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's hospital, and National Correspondent for New England Journal of Medicine, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her storied career, split between the roles of physician and writer.

Jessica Mega, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at Verily, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about the influence of the Yale system on her leadership ethos, a career switch from Harvard to Google, and how she approaches medical research as part of the world's largest search engine.

Dr. Ron Krauss, Senior Scientist and Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his life-long interest in cardiovascular disease, writing and subsequently re-writing the nutrition guidelines for the American Heart Association, and the relationship between diet and nutrition, and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Nicola Guess, Head of the Nutrition Unit at Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI) in Kuwait, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her career path, using low-carb diets to combat disease, and nutritional epidemiology.
This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit http://www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.