Dr. Craig T. Basson is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine. He is a cardiologist with specific interestsin clinical and molecular aspects of inherited and/or congenitalheart disease. He specializes in patients with genetic disordersthat 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, and he leads the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory at Cornell which is renowned for identifying the genetic bases of a wide variety of cardiovascular disorders.
MD- Yale University- 1990
PhD-Yale University- 1990
Intern, Internal Medicine- Johns Hopkins Hospital-1990-1991
Resident, Internal Medicine- Johns Hopkins Hospital- 1991-1992
Research Fellow, Genetics- Harvard Medical School - 1992-1994 Fellow- Cardiology Brigham and Women's Hospital-1992-1996
