Anne Curtis MD

Dr. Anne Curtis is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. She did her undergraduate training at Rutgers University in New Jersey and graduated from medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. She completed her medical residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Duke University Medical Center. She established the electrophysiology program at the University of Florida in Gainesville and was Director of Clinical Electrophysiology there until 2005.

Dr. Anne Curtis is one of the world's leading clinical cardiac electrophysiologists and an expert in cardiac arrhythmias. She plays a key role in developing national treatment guidelines for treating atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder that can cause fatigue, shortness of breath, exercise intolerance, and can even lead to heart failure. Her clinical research has significantly advanced her knowledge of human cardiac electrophysiology and heart-rhythm abnormalities. She is a past president of the Heart Rhythm Society and the former chair of the Food and Drug Administration's Circulatory System Devices Panel.