Dr. Robert Harrington

Robert A. Harrington, MD, is a cardiologist specializing in general non-invasive cardiology. He serves as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University. Clinically, his focus includes preventive cardiology and risk assessment, non-invasive cardiovascular diagnostics, and longitudinal cardiovascular care. His research centers on antithrombotic and antiplatelet therapeutics, outcomes and safety in percutaneous coronary interventions, and innovations in clinical trial design and digital trial technologies. He is a past president of the American Heart Association and former chair of the FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee, and previously led the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and the Duke Clinical Research Institute; he has also served as a senior editor of Hurst’s The Heart. His honors include the TCT Career Achievement Award, the AHA Chairman’s and Gold Heart Awards, the Stokes Medal, the AHA Clinical Research Prize, and election to the National Academy of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where he served as chief resident, and pursued fellowship training in general and interventional cardiology at Duke University Medical Center.