Dr. Laurence Sperling is the executive director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is also the founder and former director of the Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention Center. Currently, Sperling is the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and professor of global health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, served on the writing committee of the 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol and served as chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received four Golden Apple Awards, the Dean’s Teaching Award, the Emory School of Medicine 2018 Mentorship Award and the R. Wayne Alexander Research Mentor Award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts, abstracts and books.