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About the Provost
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, DPhil, has been Cornell University's Provost for Medical Affairs and Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College since 1997. Under the leadership of Dr. Gotto and graduate school dean Dr. David P. Hajjar, Weill Cornell has undergone tremendous growth in major philanthropic support and in educational, research, and patient care programs, including the development of national and international initiatives.
Antonio M. Gotto Jr.
Dr. Gotto came to Weill Cornell from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he was the Bob and Vivian Smith Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, scientific director of the DeBakey Heart Center, and holder of 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 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 also played a leading role in several landmark clinical trials demonstrating that cholesterol-lowering drug treatment can reduce the risk for heart disease.
As a pioneer and innovator in the development of international education 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 also a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among many other appointments and honors in the United States and abroad. Continuing his lifelong support of prevention and treatment efforts, Dr. Gotto speaks nationally and internationally on cardiovascular disease. He has contributed more than 500 scholarly articles, books, and other materials to the medical literature, and is co-author of The New Living Heart, The New Living Heart Diet, and The Living Heart Cookbook.