EPISODE #5 - The Omega-3 Index in Clinical Practice
Recording date: March 30, 2021
Broadcast date: May 13, 2021
Hosts: Drs. Bill Harris & Kristina Harris Jackson
Guest: James O’Keefe, MD
Background and key takeaways:
The Omega-3 Index test is a tool that has been used by a variety of healthcare providers in their clinical practice. In this episode, Drs. Harris and Jackson talk about the utility of the test with Dr. James O’Keefe, a preventive cardiologist based in Kansas City. He has been a proponent of omega-3s in his cardiology practice for more than two decades. His personal journey through the omega-3 world during the publication of some of the landmark studies in the 1980s and 90s fundamentally changed the way he viewed fat. Once omega-3s had been validated in several large trials, he launched a concentrated product of his own as a way to offer high quality omega-3s to his patients. Dr. O’Keefe is also well versed on omega-3 research, having been an investigator himself. Today, Dr. O’Keefe guides his patients on a path toward heart wellness, using the Omega-3 Index to help them track and monitor the impact of omega-3s in their diets. To Dr. O’Keefe, the first step in changing anything is measuring it.
Guest bio: James H O'Keefe, MD, is Director of the Duboc Cardio Health & Wellness Center and Director of Preventive Cardiology at Saint Luke’s of Kansas City, Mid America Heart Institute. He is Co-director of the Haverty Cardiometabolic Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His postgraduate training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota included a cardiology fellowship and internal medicine residency. Dr O’Keefe is board-certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac CT Imaging. Dr O’Keefe has contributed 430 articles to peer-reviewed journals, and his articles have been cited over 40,000 times in the medical literature. He has authored best-selling cardiovascular (CV) books for health professionals, notably The Complete Guide to ECGs, which is used by CV fellowship training programs as the preferred teaching text for the ECG section of the ABIM Cardiology Board Certification Exam. USA Today has listed Dr O’Keefe among America’s Most Influential Doctors. Dr O’Keefe is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Honor Societies.
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