By on September 18, 2017 - 4:52pm
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE FROM OUR USUAL VENUE!
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, DPhil
Provost for Medical Affairs Emeritus and Dean Emeritus, Weill Cornell Medicine
will present the Heberden Society lecture on Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 5:00 pm.
Weill Cornell Medicine: A “Brief” History of Cornell’s Medical School
Thursday, September 28, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
Belfer Research Building, 413 East 69th StreetRoom 204 A-C
Please note the change from our usual venue
Dr. Gotto's talk will be followed by a book-signing and reception:
Samuel J. Wood Medical Library
1300 York Avenue
Light refreshments will be served.
The Cornell Store in the Library will offer a 20% discount on purchases of Dr. Gotto’s book, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil, is Dean Emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine, and Provost for Medical Affairs Emeritus of Cornell University. From 1997-2011, Dr. Gotto was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean at Weill Cornell and Provost for Medical Affairs at Cornell University. During his tenure, the Medical College saw an overhaul of its curriculum; record-setting fundraising campaigns; a renaming in honor of foremost benefactors Joan and Sanford Weill; the establishment of a branch campus in Qatar and of a medical school in Tanzania; affiliation with the Houston Methodist Hospital; and the development of state-of-the-art facilities including the Weill Greenberg Center and the Belfer Research Building.
Dr. Gotto’s postgraduate work included doctoral studies at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In the field of atherosclerosis, his basic science research interests include clinical disorders of lipid transport and the structure, metabolism, and function of lipoproteins and apolipoproteins. 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. Dr. Gotto has played a leading role in several landmark clinical trials demonstrating that cholesterol-lowering drug treatment can reduce the risk for heart disease.
A lifelong supporter of educational efforts aimed at cardiovascular risk reduction, Dr. Gotto has been National President of the American Heart Association and President of the International Atherosclerosis Society. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gotto has contributed more than 500 scholarly articles and books to the medical literature, and is coauthor of the *Living Heart* series of books that explain the origins and treatment of cardiovascular disease to the general public. His latest book is Weill Cornell Medicine: a History of Cornell’s Medical School.
The Heberden Society, which seeks to promote an interest in the history of medicine, was founded at the medical center in 1975. With funding from the WCMC Office of the Dean, the society sponsors a series of lectures during each academic year.
Please join us for Dr. Gotto’s lecture and the reception on Thursday, September 28.
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