Climbing Mountains - The Journey to Beat the World's Biggest Killer

Climbing Mountains - The Journey to Beat the World's Biggest Killer

“Dr Salim Yusuf achieved remarkable success as a physician, scientist, clinical trialist and world health advocate.  His career journey is indeed inspirational and should serve as a roadmap for any young medical researcher with talent, ambition, a vision and drive.” David L. DeMets, PhD, Max Halperin Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics' University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 

“One of the premier scientists of our times.” Dr Marc Pfeffer, Dzau Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

This is the first biography of one of the world’s leading clinical researchers, Dr. Salim Yusuf. This book relates the powerful story of how ordinary doctors from across the globe, fuelled by friendship and altruism, transformed the field of clinical research and discovered new treatments for heart disease and stroke which save millions of lives every year. Climbing Mountains is supported in part, and endorsed to the readers, by the World Heart Federation, Geneva Switzerland, and the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada. Royalties will be donated to the World Heart Federation to be used for its Emerging Leaders Program.

Dr James Mathew is a cardiologist who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has known Dr Salim Yusuf for thirty-five years. He published a book of literature and philosophy, Book of Books: Pearls from the Stream of Time with Kent Bicknell, Libri Publishing, 2021. He has presented papers at the Annual Gatherings of the Thoreau Society in Concord, and the Annual Conference of the American Literature Association in Boston. He has published articles on Henry D. Thoreau and Ralph W. Emerson. Dr Denis Xavier is a Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, and Head of the Division of Clinical Research at St. John's Research Institute, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India. He has studied under and collaborated with Dr Salim Yusuf for over twenty years. He has published extensively in prestigious scientific journals.