Arthur Agatston (born January 22, 1947) is an American cardiologist and world-renowned physician best known as the developer of the South Beach Diet. He has authored hundreds of scholarly papers in the field of noninvasive cardiac diagnostics. His scientific research led to the Agatston score for measuring coronary artery calcium (best known as the calcium score).
Education
Agatston earned an MD at New York University School of Medicine in 1973, studied internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his cardiology fellowship at NYU.