Guest Alert: Cardiologist Eric Topol

© Scripps Health

Noted San Diego cardiologist Eric Topol had an unexpected reply last year when asked by U-T San Diego what he looked forward to in life: “I’d like to appear on Stephen Colbert’s show. I think he’s really funny.”

Apparently, the admiration is mutual. Producers of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central have booked Topol to appear on the show on March 26th. Topol will talk about his book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine” and his advocacy of mobile medical technology.

“I wanted them and they wanted me,” Topol said Friday morning from the Future of Genomic Medicine conference in La Jolla. He shook his head at the irony.

Source: UT San Diego.