Biography
Dr. Craig T. Basson is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine. He is a cardiologist with specific interests in clinical and molecular aspects of inherited and/or congenital heart disease. He specializes in patients with genetic disorders that produce cardiac tumors, congenital defects, aneurysms,cardiomyopathies, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and arrhythmias.
Dr. Basson did his undergraduate work at Washington University and graduate work at the University of Oxford. He subsequently obtained his MD and PhD at Yale University. Dr. Basson trained in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins and in Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He also pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Genetics at Harvard. Dr. Basson is the Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology as well as the Director of Cardiovascular Research in the Division of Cardiology, Dept. of Medicine. He leads the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory at Cornell which is renowned for identifying the genetic bases of a wide variety of cardiovascular disorders.
Dr. Basson has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of University Cardiologists.
A summary of Dr. Basson's Education, Training and/or Faculty Appointments is listed as following:
1990 M.D. - Yale University
1990 Ph.D. - Yale University
1990 -1991 Intern, Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins Hospital
1991 -1992 Resident, Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins Hospital
1992 -1994 Research Fellow, Genetics - Harvard Medical School
1992 -1996 Fellow, Cardiology - Brigham and Women's Hospital
