February 7, 2012
Recorded Nov 13, 2011


Dr Robert Califf conducts a series of in-depth and personal interviews with his peers in the world of cardiology to find out what makes them tick, how they feel about the future, and what lessons they have learned during their exceptional careers.

Dr Martin Leon's life has led him from high school in Brooklyn to medicine at Yale and the NIH, and, finally, to Columbia University. Many of his choices along the way were influenced by family tragedies.

Learn how he and his colleagues at the Washington Hospital Center became the "Beatles" of interventional cardiology, how the now-famous TCT meetings got started, and why it's so important for clinicians and researchers to take risks.