Expert Opinion
Certainly, the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of Nitric Oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system was an enormous accomplishment in validating the importance this miracle molecule, Nitric Oxide, plays in cardiovascular health as well as many other systems in the human body.
Since this remarkable discovery, several of the worlds leading cardiovascular scholars have made profound contributions in this arena and continue to propel this scientific emphasis forward.
John Cooke, MD, PhD
A nationally recognized figure in endothelial biology, Dr. Cooke trained in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and obtained his Ph.D. in physiology there. Subsequently, he was recruited to Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.
In 1990, Dr. Cooke was recruited to Stanford University to spearhead the program in Vascular Biology and Medicine. In that year, Dr. Cooke was one of two individuals selected by the National Institutes of Health to develop national centers of excellence in Vascular Medicine. Dr. Cooke is Director of the Vascular Biology and Medicine Program at Stanford and the Clinical Research Group in Vascular Medicine. This is a well-funded research group with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and industry. Dr. Cooke has published over 250 articles on topics of vascular medicine and biology as well as a textbook in vascular medicine. His research focuses on endothelial biology, specifically the role of NO synthase in angiogenesis and atherosclerosis.
In Dr. Cooke’s book, The Cardiovascular Cure, specific strategies are taught that can “strengthen your self defense against heart attack and stroke” and support the strategies employed by the Strategic Health System Wellness Protocol.
Victor Dzau, MD
Chancellor for health affairs, Duke Medicine, and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, Victor Dzau understands “that meaningful reform of the U.S. health-care system is front and center on the minds of legislators, business leaders, health-care professionals, and the millions of people across the country who voted for the kind of reform outlined by the Obama campaign. The need for this reform in the near term is undeniable.”
“I believe the next few decades are also critically important to making progress on the global-health front. Leading academic medical centers like Duke's have a unique opportunity to exercise leadership in extending the scope of global-health initiatives. These will include not only improving the treatment of disease, but also training health-care providers and conducting research that can be effectively translated and applied for the benefit of people around the world.”
Before coming to Duke, Dzau was the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic (Medicine) at Harvard Medical School, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and physician in chief and
director of research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Prior to his work at Harvard and Brigham and Women's, he served as Arthur Bloomfield Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.
J. Joseph Prendergast, MD
Dr. Joseph Prendergast has been a practicing physician for over 30 years. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine as well as Endocrinology and Metabolism. A graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan he completed a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, MI and his residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Prendergast has published over 40 medical articles in well-known publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine and Diabetes Care.
After Victor Dzau introduced Dr. Prendergast to the concept of using elemental l-arginine as an integrative wellness strategy, he implemented this personally with extraordinary results. So stunning were his personal benefits, he decided to implement this strategy with his own patient base and to date has clinically tested and documented the results of more than 7,000 of his own patients and is the foundation of the wellness protocols he has used in his practice for more than 20 years and is why he has been named American Diabetes Association's "Father of the Year". It is Dr. Prendergast's protocol's that are the foundation of the Strategic Health System.
"Patient empowerment is probably the most philosophically exciting idea to emerge in medicine in recent years. Patients can, and must, be educated to play the primary role in maintaining their own health. I have seen it work and have had the great satisfaction over the past 30 years of helping thousands of individuals live full and active lives."
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