Antonio Gotto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American cardiologist
Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1935
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Profession: cardiologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Antonio Gotto
- Antonio Gotto was Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
- He was succeeded by Laurie H.
- Glimcher in January 2012.
- Prior to his appointment in 1997, Gotto was chairman of the department of internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine for 20 years, where he collaborated extensively with Michael DeBakey.
- Gotto is best known for his research into blood lipids.
- As administrator, he presided over an enormous growth at Cornell, an affiliation with Houston Methodist Hospital when it separated from Baylor, and a deepening of Cornell's longtime affiliation with New York Hospital following its merger with Columbia Presbyterian to form the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Gotto obtained his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University.
- He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
- He subsequently graduated from Vanderbilt's medical school.
- 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.
- Gotto has played a leading role in several landmark clinical trials demonstrating that cholesterol-lowering drug treatment can reduce the risk for heart disease. A lifelong supporter of educational efforts aimed at cardiovascular risk reduction, Gotto has been National President of the American Heart Association and President of the International Atherosclerosis Society.
- He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of many honors.
- Gotto has contributed more than 500 scholarly articles and books to the medical literature, and he is coauthor of a series of books (The Living Heart series) that explain the origins and treatment of cardiovascular disease to the general public.
- Gotto has been on the editorial boards of numerous academic publications, including a senior editor of The Medical Roundtable, Cardiovascular Edition, a peer-reviewed journal publishing expert roundtable discussions on compelling topics. He lives in New York City and Houston, Texas.
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