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CORAL GABLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Arthur Agatston, M.D., preventive cardiologist and author of The South Beach Diet book series, has joined Baptist Health Medical Group as medical director of wellness and prevention for Baptist Health South Florida, announced Brian E. Keeley, president and CEO.

The addition of Dr. Agatston to our clinical wellness and preventive medicine team will allow us to further our mission of helping the community become healthier, Mr. Keeley said. Thanks to his research, and the work of other experts, we now better understand that adopting a healthy lifestyle lowers our risk for many diseases.

Baptist Health has a vision that has put it far ahead of many organizations in terms of health and wellness, Dr. Agatston said. Its employee wellness program, Wellness Advantage, has been recognized nationally as an award-winning venture. The idea is to bring this corporate health culture to the entire community. And the move is a tremendous opportunity for me to broaden my research, educate the public and continue to see patients. Together, we will make wellness a priority in healthcare in South Florida.

As a preventive cardiologist, Dr. Agatston said he focuses on the essentials of eating well, exercising and not smoking all ways to help prevent the chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity that can raise the risk of heart attack and stroke. On CNNs Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Last Heart Attack, Dr. Agatston told viewers, One of the best-kept secrets in the country in medicine is that doctors who are practicing aggressive prevention are really seeing heart attacks and strokes disappear from their practices. Its do-able. He will continue to provide services to patients from his existing office in Miami Beach at 1691 Michigan Ave., Suite 500, which is now a Baptist Health Medical Group facility.

A renowned preventive cardiologist, Dr. Agatston developed with Baptist Healths Warren Janowitz, M.D., the Agatston Score, which is used throughout the world and considered one of the best predictors of heart disease because it measures the calcium build-up in the coronary arteries. Dr. Agatston is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine. He completed his medical residency at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in New York and a cardiology fellowship at New York University. He is a professor at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Agatston has published more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts in medical journals. His books, which in addition to The South Beach Diet, include The South Beach Heart Program: The 4-Step Plan that Can Save Your Life, and The South Beach Wake-Up Call, have sold more than 23 million copies worldwide.

After founding the nonprofit Agatston Research Foundation, he implemented the Healthier Options for Public School Children (HOPS) initiative. The published work carried out with more than 13,500 school-age children and then brought to some 50,000 kids nationwide showed that after dietary intervention, childrens weight, blood pressure and academic test scores improved compared to children without the HOPS process.

Dr. Agatstons approach to prevention includes the principles of good nutrition, such as eating healthy fats and complex carbs, plenty of fiber, vegetables and lean proteins. Routine exercise and sleep are also emphasized.

In addition, its important to know the patients full health picture to determine a treatment plan, he said. We must look carefully at family history, whether a patient has diabetes or metabolic syndrome, whether they put on weight around their waist or hips, their triglyceride levels, blood pressure and more not just one number like cholesterol.

Having previously worked with Dr. Agatston, I know he has a long history of leadership in cardiovascular risk factor identification and prevention, said Harry Aldrich, M.D., chief of cardiology at South Miami Hospital. His method to assess the amount of calcium in a coronary artery as a predictor of future cardiac events is used throughout the world, and his work in diet has helped reshape what is considered a healthy diet. He continues to offer new observations and strategies on how to better pinpoint patients who are at high risk for heart attacks. At Baptist Health, Dr. Agatston can give practicing cardiologists new insights into prevention of heart disease, which we can then offer to our patients.

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