Dr. Lloyd-Jones graduated from Swarthmore College and Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and did his internal medicine and cardiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital, where served as medical chief resident and chief cardiac fellow. He was a fellow and then staff researcher at the Framingham Heart Study from 1997-2003. He is currently the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research, and Professor of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He served as Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern from 2009-2024, growing the department from 27 to 82 full-time faculty. His research interests include the study of the life course and mechanisms of cardiovascular health and healthy aging, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology, risk estimation, and prevention. He is an author of more than 800 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has been named a “Highly Cited Researcher” (in the top 1% of cited authors in clinical medicine) each year for the past decade. Over the last 15 years, he has been a frequent leader of national clinical practice guidelines and policy statements for the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association (AHA), and NHLBI. He has been a national leader for the AHA for two decades and has received recognition as a recipient of AHA’s national Chairman’s Award (2010), national Physician of the Year Award (2017), and Council on Epidemiology and Prevention’s Mentoring Award. He served as AHA President in 2021-22.