Oh, hey, it's the woman on the swamp tour who won't stop screaming, Yeha, Allie Ward, and we are here with your heart in your ears, cardiology.

Let's consider this episode of 101.

It's a very basic intro to a really huge discipline, and this is a guest.

I have waited months and months and months to interview.

It all started.

I got a note from a listener named Matthew Evan Taylor,

who said not only was this person a top cardiologist in the country, but he also has a great

radio voice and also was his dad. I did a little research and quickly realized no other

cardiologist would do. Me and this guest, we chatted months back over the phone, and he wanted to time the episode

so that it hit in February to encompass both American Heart Month and Black History Month,

but he's super busy. He had a conference to go to November, and then he was going to the Super Bowl in February.

Turns out, he didn't just have a conference to go to. He was being awarded the Clinical Research Prize

at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in 2024. Oh, and the Super Bowl tickets?

You know, he was there as the director of player engagement and education

and a co-investigator into the football player's health study at Harvard University. He was there

working. He is a professor and a director at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at

the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. He did his undergrad at Princeton, his doctorate from Harvard

Medical School, and has been named the American Heart Association's physician of the year.

This man's schedule, like some of our arteries, is packed wall to wall with huge responsibilities,

but he is gracious and generous, and we were able to nab him for about

an hour this past Saturday morning. I was terrified to take up too much of his time because I

already loved him so much. And we turned this episode around in just a few days. He showed up on

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