Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D.

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr, MD, DPhil, is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, New York. He is also Professor of Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs. Previously, at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, he was the Bob and Vivian Smith Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Scientific Director of the DeBakey Heart Center, and held the JS Abercrombie Professor Chair for Atherosclerosis and Lipoprotein Research. He also served as Chief of the Internal Medicine Service at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.

Dr. Gotto’s postgraduate work included doctoral studies at Oxford University in England, as a Rhodes Scholar, and residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been National President of the American Heart Association; President of the International Atherosclerosis Society; a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council and the National Diabetes Advisory Board; and a reviewer of the National Cholesterol Education Program’s Third Report on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults.

Dr. Gotto speaks nationally and internationally on cardiovascular disease and has contributed more than 500 scholarly articles and books. He and his associates were the first to achieve complete synthesis of a plasma apolipoprotein (apo C-I). They also determined the complete cDNA and amino acid sequence of apo B-100, one of the largest proteins ever sequenced and a key protein in atherosclerosis. His research interests include clinical disorders of lipid transport and the structure, metabolism, and function of lipoproteins and apolipoproteins.

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