Dr. Carl J. Lavie, Jr., is medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology and director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory at John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. He previously served for 10 years as associate director of the Internal Medicine Training program and consultant in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Lavie’s research interests include cardiac rehabilitation and prevention, lipids, hypertension, obesity, and exercise, as well as noninvasive testing, encompassing echocardiography, exercise testing, and nuclear cardiology.
