Randal J. Thomas, M.D.

Randal J. Thomas, M.D., M.S., is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with fellowship training in Preventive Cardiology. He attended the George Washington University School of Medicine and obtained Internal Medicine training at the Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also served as a Chief Resident for one year. He underwent Fellowship training in Preventive Cardiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic in 1999, Dr. Thomas was a faculty member of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois and was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina.

Areas of clinical expertise include:

• Management of patients with risk factors for cardiovascular disease
• Management of patients with cholesterol abnormalities and intolerance to cholesterol lowering therapies
• Management of patients with cardiovascular disease
• Exercise testing
• Cardiac rehabilitation services for patients

Dr. Thomas has previously served as Director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at Mayo Clinic, and as the Medical Director for the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. He has served on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Committee, and as Project Director for Healthy Living Rochester, a community-based project aimed at helping to improve the health of people living in the Rochester area. He has served as President of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and as Chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.