Jamal S. Rana is Chair of Medical Specialties and Interventional Services at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland California. He has a long-standing research interest in preventive cardiology with more than 225 publications. Areas of his research interest range from cardio metabolic disease, prevention strategies in large populations, lipids, polygenic risk to cardiac imaging. He did his research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and medicine residency at University of Pittsburgh. He completed his cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute , including an additional year of advanced cardiac imaging. He is past President of California American College of Cardiology.