The practice of academic medicine is for me a uniquely rewarding pursuit, blending as it does the intellectual quest to identify the underpinnings of disease with the humanistic elements of patient care aimed at forestalling its consequences. In maintaining a twin focus on clinical medicine and patient-oriented research, I believe that I can best serve the interests of my patients, providing state-of-the-art care while continually striving to push such care toward increasing standards of excellence.
Dr. Kizer obtained his bachelor of science summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, receiving the Department of Biochemistry's Academic Excellence Award. He earned his medical doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and received the Nathan and Pauline Pincus Prize for Outstanding Achievement as a Clinician. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kizer earned a master of science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Dr. Kizer joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College's Department of Medicine as a cardiovascular medicine specialist and cardiovascular epidemiologist in 2001, and holds a secondary appointment in Weill Cornell's Department of Public Health. Dr. Kizer's clinical focus is on the cardiac, vascular and hematologic evaluation of arterial embolism, and especially, cryptogenic stroke. He brings particular expertise in echocardiography to bear on the assessment of this phenomenon. Dr. Kizer also has a clinical and research interest in premature atherosclerosis and idiopathic venous thromboembolism, and in risk factors for these disorders.
