Arthur Agatston, M.D.

Arthur Agatston, MD, is a preventive cardiologist, associate professor of medicine, and the author of the bestselling The South Beach Diet and many companion books, including The South Beach Diet Cookbook and The South Beach Diet Supercharged. In 2004, he founded the nonprofit Agatston Research Foundation for the purpose of conducting research on diet, cardiac health, and disease prevention, and he has published more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts in medical journals including the American Journal of Cardiology and the Annals of Internal Medicine. Arthur lives with his wife in Miami Beach, Florida.