Antonio Marion Gotto

Background

Gotto, Antonio Marion was born on October 10, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Antonio M. and Reather (Gray) Gotto.

Education

Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1957; Doctor of Medicine Vanderbilt University, 1965; D. Phil., Oxford (England) University, 1961; honorary Doctor of Laws, Abilene Christian U., 1979; M.D. (honorary), University Bologna, 1982.

Career

Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1965-1966; resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1966-1967; practice medicine specializing in internal medicine, since 1967; head molecular disease branch, National Heart and Lung Institute National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1969-1971; director and principal investigator, Lipid Research Clinic, Houston, 1971-1977; professor medicine, chief director, arteriosclerosis and lipoprotein research, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1971-1996; director, principal investigator specialized center Research in arteriosclerosis, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1971-1996; director, principal investigator Special Center Research Arteriosclerosis, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 1971-1996; J.S. Abercrombie professor, Baylor College Medicine, 1976-1996; Distinguished Service professor, Baylor College Medicine, 1985-1996; science director, Methodist Hospital and Baylor National Research and Demonstration Center, 1974-1983, 87-90; Bob and Vivian Smith professor and department chairman medicine, Baylor College Medicine, 1977-1996; chief internal medicine services, The Methodist Hospital, 1977-1996; dean, Cornell University Medical College, since 1997; provost medical affairs, Cornell University, since 1997. Honorary guest lecturer various medical societies, schools and hospitals, since 1972. Member of national diabetes advisory board Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Department of Health and Human Services), 1977-1984.

Member steering committee Italian-American commission on cardiovascular disease National Institutes of Health, since 1978. Member of advisory council National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1987-1991. Honorary professor of University Buenos Aires, 1985.

Achievements

• Antonio Marion Gotto has been listed as a noteworthy Internist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The New Living Heart

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Membership

Member science advisory board Fondation Cardiologique Princesse Liliane, Brussels, Belgium, since 1976, Lorenzini Foundation, Milan, Italy, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, Germany. Member Mission of Houston Economics Development Council, 1985. Served with United States Public Health Service, 1967-1969.

Walkathon chairman Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 1986. Fellow American College Cardiology. Member Institute Medicine of NAS, American Society Clinical Investigation (vice president 1980-1981), Southern Society Clinical Investigation, International Society of Atherosclerosis (Achievement award 1982, president since 1985), American Association Physicians, American Society Biological Chemists, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association (president 1983-1984, past president 1984-1986, Paul Ledbetter award for Distinguished Service, Paul Dudley White award for Outstanding Contributions, Gold Heart award 1989), American Board Internal Medicine, American Association of Rhodes Scholars, American Longevity Association, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Anita Louise Safford, July 21, 1959. Children: Jennifer, Gillian, Teresa.

Father:

Antonio M. Gotto

Mother:

Reather (Gray) Gotto

Spouse:

Anita Louise Safford

child:

Jennifer Gotto

child:

Gillian Gotto

child:

Teresa Gotto