Barry London, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology within the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He holds an A.B., Magna Cum Laude, in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1987, Dr. London graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in Bronx, New York, with both his Ph.D. and M.D. in Physiology and Biophysiology, and Medicine respectively.
Prior to arriving at the university, Dr. London began his careers as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. During that time, from 1993-1995, he also held the position of Clinical Assistant in Medicine and staff cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1994, he began a two year position of Assistant in Cardiology at Children's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1995 he became an Assistant in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Coming to Pittsburgh in 1996 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. London quickly worked his way to his current position.
Dr. London has been featured in several publications for his research efforts, and has been the recipient of several awards for his clinical and academic excellence. He completed an Affiliate Fellowship through an American Heart Association Massachusetts Affiliate in 1992, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship at Children's Hospital, in Boston, in 1993 and a Cardiology Fellowship at the American College of Cardiology in 1998. He is board certified in Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and was the recipient of the Clinical Investigator Development Award, from the NIH and NHLBI, from 1993-1998. He received the 1998 Astra-Merck Cardiovascular Young Investigator's Award, Second Place, after which he was inducted as a permanent member of the Cardiovascular Study Section CVB in 2001. Most recently, Dr. London was appointed Co-Chairman of the Genetics Study Section through the American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic Affiliate from 2001-2002.
Previously, Dr. London has completed projects including a molecular analysis of cardiac automaticity and a study of congestive heart failure in TNF Transgenic Mice. Currently, Dr. London is involved in the following research projects at the university:
- Clinical & Molecular Analysis of the Brugada Syndrome
- Mechanisms of Repolarization-Induced Arrhythmias in Mice
- Targeting HERG: A Mouse Model of the Long QT Syndrome
- Mechanisms of Cytokine-Induced Arrhythmias in CHF
- Gender differences in cardiac repolarization/arrhythmias
- Cardiovascular Gene Therapy: Gene Transfer During LVAD Support
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Barry London
Phone: (412) 647-1174
Email: londonb@upmc.edu