Host Dr. Alan Brown welcomes Dr. Seth Martin, cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Martin is a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.

Dr. Martin discusses the pursuit of lipid profiles on a national level, utilizing Big Data from health records and clinical trials to develop better understandings of cardiovascular risk and theraputic efficacies.