Dr. James Ip

Biography

James Ip, MD, FACC, FHRS, born and raised in New York City, graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University and attended Harvard Medical School. He received the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, which allowed him to pursue research in cardiovascular genetics and stem cell therapy. After completing his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ip returned to New York for fellowships in cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology at Cornell University Medical Center. As a full professor and director of cardiac pacing and implantable devices at Cornell, he has performed thousands of procedures, including catheter ablations of arrhythmias and the implantation of cardiac devices like pacemakers and defibrillators. Dr. Ip has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has been the principal investigator in several multi-center trials evaluating novel cardiac implantable device therapies. He is actively involved in research focusing on arrhythmia mechanisms and is a key speaker at national and international meetings. Dr. Ip teaches medical students, residents, and fellows at Cornell and serves on various editorial boards. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, and has received multiple awards for his contributions to the field.

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