Arthur Agatston, M.D., developer of
the wildly successful South Beach Diet, will speak on Wednesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union College.
His talk, part of Union
College's Perspectives at the Nott
series, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Dr. Agatston, a renowned
cardiologist and director of the Mt. Sinai Non-Invasive Cardiac Lab in Miami
Beach, tailored his common-sense diet to help patients
improve their hearts and general health. The diet also paid an unanticipated
dividend – weight loss.
Dr. Agatston is a graduate of New York
University School of Medicine and interned at Montefiore
Medical Center
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is one of the developers of the
electron beam tomography scan (EBT), a screening method used to detect coronary
artery disease.
Dr. Agatston maintains a private
practice in Miami Beach and is an
associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
He also is a much-sought-after speaker on the national and international scenes,
an author/reviewer for prominent medical/cardiology journals, and an expert
consultant for the Clinical Trials Committee of the National Institutes of
Health.
The South Beach Diet: The Delicious,
Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss is Dr. Agatston's first non-academic work. The SouthBeach Diet Cookbook was recently published.