He is the medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and preventive cardiology at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.
[1] He is also a professor at the Ochsner Clinical School of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia,[1][2] and the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.
[6][7] In 2013, Lavie published a study which found that high levels of coffee consumption (four cups a day or more) was associated with a higher risk of mortality.
[8][9] Lavie was one of the first researchers to report evidence of an obesity paradox in a 2002 study on patients with heart failure.
[4] He is married to Bonnie Lavie, a former sports teacher, with whom he has four children, three of whom were in medical school as of June 2015.