Courtesy of Leslie A. Saxon, M.D.
Curiosity Expert: Leslie A. Saxon, M.D.
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC; Executive Director and Founder, USC Center for Body Computing
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Dr. Leslie A. Saxon is the Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine and the Executive Director and Founder of the USC Center for Body Computing - a wireless health innovation center.
Dr. Saxon has completed over 180 publications in various medical journals and is an active member of a multitude of organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society, The American Heart Association, and the Heart Failure Society of America and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Electrophysiology. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure.
At TEDMED 2012, Dr. Saxon spoke about the everyheartbeat (www.everyheartbeat.org) initiative—a platform to record everyone's heart rate worldwide. With the data, Dr. Saxon wants to study life patterns, identify disease, solve endemic health problems, and give people control over their own "health narrative." Everyheartbeat has been covered in publications worldwide.
Dr. Saxon has also appeared in many media outlets, including the BBC, the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal.
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