Cardiac Rehab

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Randal J. Thomas about the history and importance of cardiac rehab.Dr. Thomas is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with fellowship training in preventive cardiology. He attended the George Washington University School of Medicine and obtained internal medicine training at the Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also served as a chief resident for one year. He underwent fellowship training in preventive cardiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Before joining Mayo Clinic in 1999, Dr. Thomas was a faculty member of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois from 1992-1996, and was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina from 1996-1999. Dr. Thomas has previously served as director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at Mayo Clinic and continues to serve as the medical director for the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. He has served on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Committee and as Project Director for Healthy Living Rochester, a community-based project aimed at helping to improve the health of people living in the Rochester area. He has served as president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and is currently chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.Listen along as Dr. Thomas shares his wealth of knowledge.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/