Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Cherzai.

Today's podcast is really special because we have a very talented physician and a community leader as our guest,

whose passion for translating his years of work in cardiology to meaningful outcomes in communities is just remarkable.

We're speaking with Dr. Columbus-Batiste, a board-certified interventional cardiologist,

and assistant clinical professor

at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.

Since 2008, Dr. Batiste has served as chief of cardiology and is the founder of integrative

cardiovascular disease program based at Kaiser Permanente, where he advocates a lifestyle plan

to prevent cardiac events for his patients by helping them modify their lifestyle.

Over the years, Dr. Batiste has been recognized for his amazing work in the community by

multiple organizations. His ability to bring attention to health care disparities in the African-American communities and beyond

has been cited in many national forms.

He is a bright light that will bring change to health care, one person and one family at a time.

As he says, each one can teach one.

We are honored to introduce him to all of you today.

Please visit his website to learn more about his nonprofit organization called the Healthy Heart Nation,

which we will share with you all in the podcast notes.

We hope you enjoy this conversation.

Thank you so much for joining us. Dr. Batiz, thank you so much

for joining us today. We're so grateful to you. Dean and I are so excited to have the opportunity

to speak with you, to learn from you, and for our audience to get to know you and your amazing work.

So excited that you're here with us today.

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