Peter Salgo, MD, is the associate director of the Open Heart ICU at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is also an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, practicing physician, and respected health-care futurist who has been speaking about health care, and heart care in particular, for more than 25 years. Currently practicing anesthesiology and internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital, Salgo also teaches at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author, with Joe Layden, of The Heart of the Matter: The Three Key Breakthroughs to Preventing Heart Attacks. In it he offers a simple formula to treat people before they get sick, which he claims will prevent heart attacks.
He lives in New York with his wife, Heidi.