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.