Why does this newsletter exist?
Almost all of the medical news that you hear about is either unimportant for most people or too preliminary to be useful to anyone.
The medical and health news ecosystem is confusing to even the smartest and most well informed consumers, and so the point of this newsletter is to help my readers understand what’s actually important from all of the other noise out there.
If medical and health information isn’t placed into the right context, we can’t understand it’s applicability.
The term “clinical significance” refers to the practical importance of a medical intervention, and that’s what I focus on here.
Who is writing this thing?
My name is Gregory Katz, and I’m a cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I’m also an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency, which means a large part of my day job is spent training and teaching internal medicine doctors.
I graduated from New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and completed my residency at NYU Langone Medical Center, where I served for a year as senior chief resident. I stayed at NYU for my cardiology fellowship, where I served as chief fellow.
I also cohost the Beyond Journal Club podcast with CoreIM and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Additionally, I am a councilor for the New York chapter of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the ACC Council on Diabetes and Cardiometabolic disease.
All opinions in this newsletter are my own and do not represent the opinions or views of any organization that I am affiliated with.
What should you expect to read about here?
You can expect my insights into cardiovascular disease, preventive medicine, noteworthy new scientific research, nutrition, exercise, science in the media, or whatever else seems worth discussing.
My goal is to make the subjects I address approachable and applicable to day-to-day life, rather than the head-in-the-clouds-and-detached-from-reality scientific perspective that many doctors tend to get caught up in.
Please always feel free to email me directly by replying directly to the newsletter with questions, comments, and suggestions for topics to cover.
